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General election result: Three Labour MPs returned with increased majorities - pages 10 & 11
Bell rings out as Borough Market re-opens
Hero Roy: ‘I want to meet police who rushed me to hospital’ EXCLUSIVE
By Chiara Giordano
chiara@southwarknews.co.uk
Emotions ran high and a sea of people bowed their heads in silence as businesses and the community
“reclaimed” Borough Market yesterday.
Hundreds gathered in the market place to observe a minute’s silence before a poem was read by Suley Muhidin and a poignant speech was given by chair of Borough
Market trustees Donald Hyslop. With visible tears in his eyes, a trader rang the bell to declare the market officially open shortly before 10am....
Full story on page 8
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Editorial
Democracy the winner at ballot box
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T WAS the election that nobody wanted - not even the Prime Minister who called it, apparently - but it turned out to be an election where more people took part than in the past twenty years.
We never tell our readers how they should vote, and don’t believe that is the role of the press. We prefer to give you as much information as possible and let you make your own mind up. What we do always ask, and last week was no exception, is that you take the trouble to go out and cast your vote - and while we certainly don’t take any credit for it happening, it’s fantastic to see the rise in the number who voted compared with 2015 - up from an average of 63.6 per cent across the three constituencies to 69 per cent last week. All political parties should encourage the people of this nation to go out and vote - your mandate, even with a decent majority, is diminished if the turnout is low. Like many pundits, we had envisaged Bermondsey & North Southwark to be a close-run thing, with incumbent Neil Coyle, barely two years into the job, trying to stave off a comeback from Simon Hughes, who lost the seat after 32 years as MP. In fact, Mr. Coyle almost trebled his majority. Sir Simon had surmised that voters punished the Lib Dems two years ago for going into coalition with the Tories - and banked on that not happening this time around. He was possibly right - as his total vote last week went up from 2015. What he didn’t foresee, as most of us didn’t, was the surge in Labour voters - as the young turned out in droves for Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign and manifesto - even if this meant voting for a vocal critic of the Labour leader (though he will also argue his local campaign paid dividends). Sir Simon tells us this week that he’s going nowhere - there will be many who read that with sadness perhaps, believing that the time is right for him to step away, after three decades of service. The Labour surge was replicated in Camberwell & Peckham, with Harriet Harman’s majority ballooning to over 37,000, and also in Dulwich & West Norwood, where Helen Hayes saw her majority soar to over 28,000. All three - no fans of Corbyn until this week - have indulged in the eating of humble pie, along with many in the Labour party now keen to present a unified front. All opposed to Brexit, they will now be pushing for the government to take a more conciliatory tone with the EU. Once upon a time, we only went to the polls every five years or so. If the Tories do manage to cobble together a working coalition with the DUP in Northern Ireland, it could still mean fresh elections within the year if it proves impossible to pass legislation. That would mean young people voting in three elections in two years, as well as a referendum. Who said democracy was dead?
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LONDON BRIDGE TERROR ATTACKS
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PROUD RESIDENTS have shown their support for the campaign to get a Millwall fan who fought off the London Bridge attackers a George Cross, by gathering outside Manze’s pie and mash shop with the sign ‘George + 4 Roy’.
A petition set up on Change.org to get Lions fan Roy Larner, from Peckham, a George Cross has already attracted more than 16,000 signatures. The online petition states that a letter will be sent to recently reelected Bermondsey and Old Southwark Labour MP Neil Coyle – who told the News he would pledge his support for the campaign. The George Cross is the first level civilian medal for bravery, for acts of heroism and courage in extreme danger. However the government’s website states that a person cannot be nominated for a specific honour as the award they receive is decided by the honours committee. Rotherhithe man Steve Cornish rallied the community together at Manze’s in Tower Bridge Road on Saturday, June 10, as a show of support for the campaign. Steve said he wanted to keep the momentum going for the campaign to get Roy the George Cross – and that it had the backing of a former Millwall goalkeeper. “The plan is to keep the momentum going because next week something else happens and it’s old news,” he said. “We want politicians on board and we want to put pressure on so that this happens rather than having it fall by the wayside. “Tony Warner, an ex-Millwall goalkeeper, is on board. He said this is great that something is actually happening rather than just being talked about and we need to keep the momentum going, and that gave me a little bit of fire in my belly to do
BY GEORGE HE DESERVES IT! Residents show their support for campaign to get Millwall fan bravery honour
something about it.” Steve described Roy’s actions as “going beyond the call of duty”. “It’s a local thing,” he said. “When people were running away, he ran towards the danger and the chances are that he probably saved some lives, so if that doesn’t deserve an award, I don’t know what does. “He deserves the highest civic award and recognition for what he did.” To view or sign the online petition, visit: www.change.org/p/award-roylarner-the-george-cross
Swedish brewery makes ‘F***k You, I’m Millwall’ beer
A SWEDISH brewery has named a beer ‘F*** You, I’m Millwall’.
The team at Frequency Beer Works, based north of Stockholm, have brewed a special edition 5.0% English bitter in honour of Roy. “A friend of mine who is a Millwall fan in London sent me a link to an article about Roy and I thought it was an amazing story of his bravery,” 45-year-old David
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‘I want to meet police who rushed me to hospital’ says hero Lion of terror attack
LONDON BRIDGE TERROR ATTACKS
Fund raises £868k in one day
A SOLIDARITY Fund set up by the British Red Cross to help victims of the London and Manchester terror attacks raised £868,000 in one day.
The bulk of the cash came in during Saturday Night for London, held on June 10, and was supported by a host of businesses. • 120 London pubs owned by Greene King held collections • Deliveroo donated £1 for every order placed across London on that Saturday after 6pm onwards. • The café chain Eat encouraged its customers to donate the price of a coffee • Collections were held at the production of Don Juan, at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End • Uber donated £1 for every trip taken in London that Saturday evening and encouraged people to donate to the fund with a special pop up message in its app Mike Adamson, chief executive of the British Red Cross, said: “We have been overwhelmed by the support and response from the British public and businesses on Saturday night. It’s fantastic to see the capital returning to Saturday night and showcasing the resilience of the people and the city.”
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A SERVICE of Hope for families, survivors and first responders to the terror attack will take place at Southwark Cathedral at 2pm, on Friday, June 16.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Revd Justin Welby, will preach at the service, and the Bishop of Southwark, The Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, will officiate. Entrance is invitation only. Another service for the community will take place at 2pm on Friday, June 23.
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Millwall fan Roy hopes to be released from hospital after several operations By Chiara Giordano
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ROY LARNER, the Millwall fan who was stabbed several times while fighting off terrorists during the London Bridge attack, has told the News that he wants to meet and thank the police officers who rushed him to hospital.
Roy, 47, has been recovering in hospital after fending off three terrorists armed with knives in the Black and Blue restaurant in Borough. Almost £50,000 has been raised for the Lions supporter, originally from Peckham, who shouted "f*** you, I'm Millwall" as he laid into the attackers. Hundreds have also called for Roy to be awarded the George Cross for his act of bravery in a campaign backed by Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP Neil Coyle. The father-of-one was rushed to hospital in the back of a police car by two officers he believes were from Peckham police station – and who he hopes to meet and thank once he is well enough. "I was having a quick pint in the market first and then I went to the Black and Blue pub," he said, recalling the events of that horrific night. "I had my back to the front door of the pub and I saw people panicking and running around. "We didn't know what was going on but we could see people running and
Millwall fan Roy Larner; and showing his stitches (right)
"There's not even a name I could call those people, I wouldn't even call them animals; but they didn't win because they're dead now"
as I turned around to the front door there were these three blokes trying to smash the glass door. "They kicked the door through and shouted 'Allah'. In hindsight, I should've run." Rather than running away from the attackers, Roy attempted to stop them from getting into the restaurant area
Duchess visits King’s staff and patients By Anthony Phillips
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THE DUCHESS of Cambridge visited King’s College Hospital yesterday, to speak with victims of the London Bridge terror attack as well as Emergency Department staff who worked that night.
The Duchess spent an hour at the Camberwell hospital, speaking to chief executive Nick Moberly; medical
director Professor Julia Wendon; Jane Bond; Gold Command on the night of the incident; and Mark Madams; Silver Command on the night of the incident. She then went to visit wards where she spoke to staff, patients and their family. She also spoke to Dr Malcolm Tunnicliff about the psychological support that has been made available to staff and patients following the incident Lynne Watkins, Head of Nursing in the Emergency Department, said: “It was an
honour to meet the Duchess of Cambridge and talk to her about the role King’s staff played in treating the injured on the night of the attack in London Bridge and Borough Market. Her visit recognises the skill, hard work and dedication of the whole team, and it was a real boost for the patients who are still recovering.” Fourteen wounded people were admitted into the hospital on the night of Saturday, June 3.
of the pub where there were children. "It was just an instant reaction, I don't know why, I just went for one of them and the other two were heading towards the restaurant but then the three of them started on me," he said. "I was stopping one of them to stop them going into the restaurant area
where the kids were. "It all happened so quick, I was just trying to defend myself. "I somehow managed to get out and they followed me out. They [the police] were shooting around me. I remember knocking on some other door to let me in." Roy suffered eight wounds and has had a number of operations but hopes he will be able to leave hospital this weekend. "I'm lucky to be here," he said. "I'm feeling okay given what's happened, I'm feeling better. "The more I get out and have a coffee downstairs and see people, the better I feel. "The hospital has offered me support which I will take. "There's not even a name I could call those people, I wouldn't even call them animals; but they didn't win because they're dead now." Roy said he could not praise the emergency services highly enough and that the support he had received from the community had been overwhelming. "It makes you feel like you've done something right," he said.
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By Owen Sheppard
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SCOTLAND YARD has arrested a total of 21 men and woman in connection with the June 3 London Bridge attack, and released photos of the terrorists’ weapons and van.
Counter terrorism officers have spoken to more 260 people from nineteen countries. Of these, 78 were “significant witnesses”. The most recent raid, on June 11, saw the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, supported by the Territorial Support Group, arrest a nineteen-year-old man at an address in Barking. Six more men remain in police custody under Terrorism legislation. They include: • A 28-year-old man arrested on June 10 at a residential address in Barking • A 27-year-old man was arrested on a street in Ilford on June 5 • A 29-year-old man was arrested at an address in Ilford on June 5 • A 30-year-old man was arrested at an address in Ilford on June 5 • A 29-year-old man was arrested at an address in Newham on June 9 • A 27-year-old man was arrested at a residential address in Ilford on June 9 A 33-year-old man was released on bail until a date in late June, after he was arrested on a street in Ilford on suspicion of firearms offences, and possession with intent to supply controlled drugs.
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Five men and seven women, who were all arrested on June 4 from addresses in Barking, and were released without charge. On June 10 police released photos of one of the “distinctive” twelve-inch pink ceramic knives used by the three dead attackers: Khuram Shazad Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba. The Met confirmed on June 13 that officers had located the shop from which the terrorists had bought the knives. On June 11 the Met released photos of the fake explosives, made from plastic bottles, worn by the terrorists. Commander Dean Haydon, who is leading the investigation, said: “Anyone who saw [the fake explosives] on the night would have thought they were genuine… It makes the bravery of those police officers and members of the public who tackled the terrorists even more remarkable.” Photos were also released of the terrorists’ white Renault van (registration HN66 TKX). A stash of Molotov cocktails and two blow torches were found inside, as well as bags of gravel and office chairs, which police believe could have been planned for use as a cover story, if the van had been stopped. Police hunting for information on the whereabouts of the van before the attack. Anyone with information can call the police in confidence on 0800 789 321 or visit gov.uk/ACT and complete a secure form.
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LONDON BRIDGE TERROR ATTACKS
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INQUESTS INTO the deaths of eight people killed during the June 3 London Bridge terror attack were formally opened at Southwark Coroner’s Court on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Southwark Coroner Andrew Harris offered his condolences to family members in court on Tuesday. “This is the beginning of the investigation into those terrible deaths,” Dr Harris said. “lt is a horrible thing for parents to hear the details of the death, particularly a violent one, of their children. I offer my condolences.” Detective chief inspector Simon Moring, of the Met's Specialist Crime and Operations Department, confirmed that Sebastian Belanger, 36, died of a stab wound to the chest in Borough Market. Representatives from the Spanish Consul were present to hear that 39-year-old HSBC worker Ignacio Echeverria, from Madrid, died from a stab wound to the back on London Bridge. Hackney resident James
McMullan, 32, who was found outside the Post Office on Borough High Street, died of a haemorrhage and a stab wound to the chest. Australian nurse Kirsty Boden, 28, was found with incised stab wounds to the chest in the vicinity of Southwark Cathedral, in Montague Close. Australian au pair Sara Zelenak, 21, who is reported to have worked in Herne Hill, was fatally stabbed. A third Frenchman, Xavier Thomas, 45, was pulled from the River Thames three days after the attack - it is thought he was hit by the van and thrown off the bridge. The inquests for Christine Archibald and Alexandre Pigeard were opened on Wednesday. Canadian Ms Archibald, 30, was struck by the speeding van as she walked across the bridge with her fiancé Tyler Ferguson. Mr Pigeard, a 26-year-old Frenchman who was working on the terrace of Boro Bistro restaurant in Borough Market, was fatally stabbed. The full inquests for the eight victims will be set for a later date, which had not been confirmed at the time this newspaper went to print.
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LONDON BRIDGE TERROR ATTACKS
Fund for market traders raises over £70,000
A TRADER support fund has raised more than £70,000 for businesses in and around Borough Market affected by the London Bridge attack.
The fund was set up by the Borough Market Trust, United St Saviour’s Charity and Better Bankside to help those who suffered financial hardship and losses as a result of the temporary closure of the market area. A Just Giving page, set up by Borough Market, smashed its target of £50,000 within days after generous donations flooded in. To donate, visit: www.justgiving.com/crowdf unding/bmrelieffund
Assistance centre open for those who need support
RESIDENTS WHO have been affected by last week’s terror attack in London Bridge and Borough Market can seek emotional support at a Community Assistance Centre near Southwark Cathedral.
The centre, in Montague Chambers, Montague Close, SE1, is staffed by Southwark Council, the British Red Cross, the NHS, Cruse Bereavement Care, and Victim Support. It will remain open daily between 8am and 10pm, until further notice. www.southwark.gov.uk/lond onbridgesupport for more information. Victim Support 24/7 Freephone is 0808 168 9111.
A minute’s silence as traders ‘reclaim’ Borough Market
By Chiara Giordano
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EMOTIONS RAN high and a sea of people bowed their heads in silence as businesses and the community “reclaimed” Borough Market yesterday.
Hundreds gathered in the market place to observe a minute’s silence before a poem was read by Suley Muhidin and a poignant speech was given by chair of Borough Market trustees Donald Hyslop. With visible tears in his eyes, a trader rang the bell to declare the market officially open shortly before 10am. “We will not forget the people who lost their lives here,” said Mr Hyslop in an emotional speech greeted with
deafening applause. “On behalf of the traders, the staff, the businesses and the community of Borough, we welcome you back to Borough Market, our market. “There has been a market in this area for a thousand years; it has seen plague and flood and war and sometimes like now it becomes the centre of attention but mostly it’s been a part of the everyday life of the city and community. “A place people come to shop and eat, to drink, to socialise and to laugh and that’s exactly what markets all over the world do: bring people together and today we begin to reclaim this place. “Our resilient, creative community has championed the last few days, cleaning beyond cleaning, relaying the tables and straightening the chairs and today
they’ve brought their goods to market with the familiar colourful displays and the smells and sounds. “In a minute, we give this place back to you with love and we only have two small favours to ask in return. “Firstly, a call from a thousand years of history: spend a little money with us please if you can – or spend a lot – and secondly: come here today, come here at the weekend, come here when you can – it’s your market.” Among those who paid their respects yesterday were traders and market staff, members of the community, emergency services, Southwark Council leader Peter John, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, MP Neil Coyle, and Rupert Murdoch. Mr Coyle said he would invite prime
Southwark’s chief exec praises ‘unsung hero’ council staff By Chiara Giordano
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SOUTHWARK'S CHIEF executive has praised her staff for dropping everything to help those in need.
Council boss Eleanor Kelly was away on holiday when the horrific events unfolded shortly after 10pm on Saturday, June 3. She received a phone call from the council's emergency planning officer within 20 minutes of the terrorist incident taking place, who informed her of what had happened and that they were going to set up Southwark's Borough Emergency Control Centre (BECC) which pulled in volunteers from across the local authority to help. "Some people think the council doesn't have anything to do with it but in order to
be able to continue to run the council as business as usual it [the BECC] is run in a totally parallel way," explained Ms Kelly. "The BECC is a physical room in this building [the Tooley Street council office] with white boards and lots of phones and lots of IT connections; it's very much an emergency management control centre." Ms Kelly explained that during a serious incident or emergency, a blue light service such as the police or fire brigade takes control - and in this case it was the police. "The immediate issue in an incident like Saturday is about stopping the incident, saving lives and getting people to hospital," she said. "We don't have a role in that but we do have a role in making sure we have something in place for people who can't get home and, working with the British
Red Cross, one of the first things we do is set up a reception centre where people can get help if they're stuck." Once the police had concluded its investigation and was ready to lift the cordon earlier this week, the council was brought in to co-ordinate shrinking the cordon in two phases. "You don't want the cordon to be lifted and people to be going into streets that look like something bad has happened, we want them to look like normal," said Ms Kelly. "The police were ready to lift the cordon around the market but there needed to be a massive clean up and a massive help to the businesses to be ready for the re-opening. "Sometimes people think 'what's it got to do with the chief executive and the council' but there are some really unsung heroes down there cleaning the streets
and providing cups of tea and telling people where to go because transport has come to a standstill." Ms Kelly said other factors the council dealt with included arranging where books of condolences were to be placed and where hundreds of flowers left in tribute to the victims would be moved to and how. "When there's an incident like this there can be a spike in hate crime and we experienced that and then there's a fall but we have an important ongoing role in communicating to the community
minister Theresa May to meet with businesses and people affected by the tragic events of June 3 as soon as possible. “I’ve been down here since 7.30am and have seen them open up and able to get on with their jobs and their lives which is really important to me and everybody who enjoys the market,” he told the News. “There are some ongoing concerns around compensation and insurance issues in particular which I will be picking up; we need to make sure that the terrorists cannot win and businesses aren’t lost. “Many traders are still in shock, many know people directly affected so there is a huge emotion towards what happened but there’s also a willingness to get back to work and get on and prove that those lives were not lost in vain.”
about the need for cohesion and vigilance and also calm and resilience in getting back to normal," she added. "There are only three people who work in the council full time on emergency planning and hundreds of people have been involved in this over the last week and everybody volunteering steps up and that's completely admirable. "The council sent out a message thanking everybody last week and I sent out another message this morning [Tuesday] because we can't deal with an emergency if people aren't prepared to volunteer." Chief executive Eleanor Kelly
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Three Labour MPs return with increased majorities GENERAL ELECTION 2017 - THE RESULTS
By Chiara Giordano
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SOUTHWARK’S THREE Labour MPs managed to hold on to their seats in the snap general election – with even bigger majorities than those of 2015.
The Bermondsey and Old Southwark count
The Camberwell and Peckham count
Bermondsey and Old Southwark (67.03% turnout):
Neil Coyle (Labour): 31,161 Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats): 18,189 Siobhan Baillie (Conservative): 7,581 Elizabeth Jones (UKIP): 838 John Tyson (Green) 639 James Clarke (Independent): 113 Majority = 12,972 (+8,483 votes/+189%)
Camberwell and Peckham (67.34% turnout):
Harriet Harman (Labour): 44,665 Ben Spencer (Conservative): 7,349 Michael Bukola (Liberal Democrat): 3,413 Eleanor Margolies (Green): 1,627 Ray Towey (Christian People’s Alliance): 227 Aminata Sellu (Workers
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With 31,161 votes, Neil Coyle tripled his majority in Bermondsey and Old Southwark in contrast to the 22,146 votes he received just two years ago. Liberal Democrat Sir Simon Hughes, who served as MP for the constituency for 32 years until he was unseated by the Labour MP in 2015, received 18,189 votes – up slightly on 17,657 votes in 2015. Mr Coyle said he was “chuffed to bits” with his majority, which increased to 12,972 this year from 4,489 in 2015. Harriet Harman turned up at the council’s Tooley Street offices just shortly before the results were announced to find she had secured a huge majority of 37,316 in Camberwell and Peckham. Dulwich and West Norwood MP Helen Hayes was at the election count in Lambeth until the end of the evening. She received 39,093 votes – a majority of 28,153 compared to Conservative Rachel Wolf’s 10,940 votes. The clean sweep of the borough’s three seats came as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn defied critics to gain seats across the country. The UK woke to the news that the election had ended in a hung parliament on Friday – as well as calls for Theresa May to step aside as PM.
The Dulwich and West Norwood count
Revolutionary Party): 131 Majority = 37,316 (+11,492 votes/+44.5%)
Dulwich and West Norwood (72% turnout)
Helen Hayes (Labour): 39,093 Rachel Wolf (Conservative): 10,940 Gail Kent (Lib Dem): 4,475 Rashid Nix (Green): 1,408 Robin Lambert (Independent): 121 Yen Lin Chong (Independent): 103 Majority = 28,156 (+12,034 votes/+74.6%)
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“People were really excited and interested. The idea that this was hundreds of Trotskyites is ridiculous”
LABOUR ACTIVISTS say they were helped to victory in Bermondsey and Old Southwark after a record-breaking 1,700 volunteers canvassed shops and businesses on polling day.
It has been widely reported that a rush of people aged eighteen to 30 helped push up the numbers, compared to the 1,000 or so who helped on polling day in 2015. Councillor Paul Fleming – who was the only Southwark Labour councillor who supported Jeremy Corbyn in the party’s 2015 leadership contest – put it
“almost entirely” down to the “Corbyn effect”. The 29-year-old representing Faraday ward told the News: “People were really excited and interested. The idea that this was hundreds of Trotskyites is ridiculous. These were normal people who wanted genuine change. “I’ve been doing this since I was ten years old, and I have never seen anything like it. “The difference this time was that we were unashamedly Labour and explicitly left wing.”
Hughes: ‘It’s absolutely a seat we would hope and plan to get back’
By Chiara Giordano
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SIMON HUGHES may have failed to reclaim his old Bermondsey and Old Southwark seat but he vows he isn’t going anywhere.
The Liberal Democrat, who held the seat for 32 years until he was unseated by Labour’s Neil Coyle in 2015, said he would continue his commitments in the area – including his role as school governor, chair of London Bubble Theatre and independent director of London Football Association. The 66-year-old said he still hadn’t retired and was in talks with the Open University about returning to work. “It was a very happy campaign,” he said, talking about the election. “It had record numbers of people involved, we had really good activity on the ground and an amazing display of support in posters all over the place and billboards.” He added: “It was very frustrating because at the beginning of the campaign it looked as if Labour nationally weren’t really going to get any traction and that the Tories would be across the country the party to beat. “But the Tories scored increasing numbers of own goals and the Labour campaign gained momentum and what
happened here is that more people voted for us this time than last time and that was great, but suddenly over the last two weeks more people who had never voted before came out and voted Labour. It was frustrating because I was clear that had we had the seat we would’ve done a better job than has been done over the last two years by the Labour MP.” Sir Simon said the Labour manifesto would have been “very attractive” to young people, their parents, and their grandparents because it offered to scrap tuition fees entirely. “It’s absolutely a seat we would hope and plan to get back,” he said, talking about his former seat of Bermondsey and Old Southwark. “And we will be ready when it comes. “I haven’t disappeared, I’m not moving away, I will still live in SE1 and will be involved with everything.”
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Coyle ‘ready’ if new election gets called By Chiara Giordano
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NEIL COYLE says he is ready to defend his seat in Bermondsey and Old Southwark if another election is called in the near future.
The Labour MP held on to his seat last week after fighting off veteran Liberal Democrat Sir Simon Hughes to win a 12,972 majority – almost treble that of his 4,489 majority in 2015. The outspoken critic of party leader Jeremy Corbyn was beaming from ear to ear at Southwark Council’s Tooley Street offices long before the result was called, having watched Labour storm seats across the country throughout the night. Mr Coyle called for Tory prime minister Theresa May to resign or to “rethink as a minimum” after her decision to call a snap election backfired and resulted in a hung parliament. But despite having to defend his seat after only two years of being elected in 2015, Mr Coyle says he is ready to defend it again if need be. “On the day Theresa May announced the snap election at 11am I had a large group of volunteers at 6pm,” he said. “We were able to scale up our local campaign quite quickly because of our local team which is a very young team of councillors, my team, and volunteers. I don’t see this as a stop on the campaign so campaigning continues.” Mr Coyle said he was “over the moon” with his result – but admitted he was surprised it wasn’t a closer race with Sir Simon Hughes who he unseated in 2015 despite the fact the Lib Dem had served 32 years as MP for the constituency.
“It was an incredible result,” he said. “I’m chuffed to bits to have got a significant increase in two years. “I was surprised; I thought it would be closer last time and this time. “I thought that people would put that trust in me and in the Labour party and it’s very reassuring that the British public can’t be hoodwinked.” He vowed to “get stuck in” with saving the China Hall in Rotherhithe – one of the many under-threat community pubs in Southwark – and to make sure Millwall continued to get the support it needed to secure its future. When asked whether he had underestimated his party leader, Mr Coyle said: “I think I underestimated the enthusiasm he has generated among many young people. “Just because of the tuition fee policy, we had more young people. They were desperate not to be saddled with debt and to have more opportunities in the future.”
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‘We underestimated Jeremy Corbyn and overestimated Theresa May’ - Harman
By Owen Sheppard
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CAMBERWELL AND Peckham MP Harriet Harman has said Labour has regained its “legitimacy and authority” while heaping praise on party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Her share of the vote after Thursday’s general election was 44,665, giving her the second highest majority of any London MP. Speaking to the News on Friday afternoon, Ms Harman said: “I said in my victory speech that we have underestimated Jeremy Corbyn and overestimated Theresa May, and I could not be happier that it was that way around. “Corbyn has shown the party is going forward under him. It has laid to rest everyone’s concerns about him. He has proven that he can command confidence. He has also shown that it is critical that young people come out and vote. “I’m so excited about the fact that we have MPs in Lincoln, Canterbury, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Warwick. It makes us a national party. Our legitimacy and our authority are regained.” The former Labour party leader also poked fun at the likes of The Sun and Daily Mail newspapers - who savaged Corbyn in election week. “Basically there was a kind of mutual delusion where the right wing press and the Conservatives convinced themselves they were unassailable,” she said. “And they have proven themselves to be out of touch. They were living in a bubble. This has been an important day in our democracy.” The MP of nearly 35 years then
called on Theresa May to resign, saying: “She hasn’t got a shred of credibility left. She has exposed herself and damaged her own party and her colleagues. I don’t see how she could now go and negotiate for Britain when she has weakened her own hand, and weakened Britain. “Isn’t it wonderful that we’re asking ourselves who should be the next leader of the Tory party rather than Labour?” Asked who could potentially take over from May as Tory leader, Harriet said: “Well Amber Rudd nearly lost her own seat, and Boris Johnson is a buffoon. Jeremy Corbyn looks like a towering statue compared with them.” When the News spoke to Ms Harman during the election campaign, she suggested Corbyn should resign if Labour had suffered a heavy defeat, saying he should “take responsibility”.
Councillors poll second Pro-Millwall Willow: in parliamentary bids ‘My fight continues’
By Owen Sheppard
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TWO SOUTHWARK councillors have finished second in seats outside of the borough, where they were facing up against Tory MPs with huge majorities.
East Walworth Labour councillor Rebecca Lury, who grew up in Harrow, went up against Nick Hurd in the west London seat of Ruislip, Northwood & Pinner. She earned 16,575 votes (31 per cent), equalling a 10.9 per cent boost from 2015. Mr Hurd retained his seat with 30,555 votes (57.2 per cent). Nunhead councillor Fiona Colley (Southwark Council’s cabinet member for finance, modernisation and performance) took on the Conservatives in the seat of Woking, in Surrey.
Cllr Colley, whose parents live in Woking, previously said: “My mother has motor-neurone disease and we’ve really seen that impact of having social care and home care workers who are on zero-hours contracts and on minimum wage, and where there is no continuity of care. Seeing what the Tory cuts mean has made me want to get that message across to people in Woking.” Cllr Colley i m p r o v e d Labour’s share of the vote, with 1 3 , 1 7 9 (23.9%). Her rival, Jonathan Lord, held the seat 29,903 (54.1%).
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THE PRO-MILLWALL candidate who stood for election in Lewisham East has said her fight continues to protect the local community and the football club from regeneration.
Willow Winston – backed by the Association of Millwall Supporters – gained 355 votes in the constituency. The 73-year-old had said that, if elected, she would campaign for reform to laws around compulsory purchase orders (CPOs), a legal process which Lewisham Council hoped to use to force private land owners, including Millwall, from land proposed for redevelopment. Willow told the News: “I am very grateful for the votes I had, and it was an extraordinary experience, talking to many complete strangers on their door steps and on the streets. People were very sympathetic to what I was standing for. “I stood for Millwall and the
community. People understood the principle, about not having whole neighbourhoods destroyed so that property developers could move in and make a billion or two or three. “There was a rush of people voting for Jeremy Corbyn, but I think those people were voting for a sort of revolution that is desired in this country. Not necessarily for the local Labour candidate.” The results for the Lewisham East constituency were: • Heidi Alexander (Labour) = 32,072 • Peter Fortune (Conservative) = 10,859 • Emily Frith (Liberal Democrat) = 2,086 • Störm Poorun (Green) = 803 • Keith Forster (UKIP) = 798 • Willow Winston (Independent) = 355 • Maureen Martin (Christian People’s Alliance) = 228
‘Result was a clear message on Brexit’
MP FOR Dulwich and West Norwood, Helen Hayes, has said the general election result nationwide was a vote against a hard Brexit.
Helen, who was first elected as MP in 2015 having been a Southwark councillor, almost doubled her majority and claimed 39,093 votes overall. Speaking to the News on Tuesday, Helen said: “I was really delighted by the result… We ran a very positive campaign. “If you look at the history of the borough it has been subject to national trends. This was always going to be an extremely difficult result to predict. You don’t take anything for granted.” Looking to the year ahead, she said: “There will have to be some changes to the direction the government is taking in relation to Brexit… “I think Brexit was always central to this election. I think the result across the country represents a clear message to the prime minister that the approach she was taking [of a hard Brexit] doesn’t have a strong endorsement.” Helen also welcomed suggestions that Labour and the Conservatives could work together when it comes to forming a strategy on the forthcoming Brexit negotiations. “I think there is absolutely a need for long-term working between the parties on Brexit,” she said. “What’s important to me, as a member of parliament for an area that voted heavily for remain, is that there will be room for those views in the debate, and that it’s not all Eurosceptic dogma.”
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Ska legends line up for Bermondsey Carnival extravaganza The Specials’ Neville Staples sign up to free festival By Chiara Giordano
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SOME OF the biggest names in the UK reggae and Ska scene are gearing up to take to the stage at this year’s Bermondsey Carnival in Southwark Park.
Among the special guests to perform in front of crowds on Saturday, July 1,will be ‘The Queen of Lovers Rock’ Janet Kay; singer from The Specials, Neville Staple; UK Reggae legend and hit producer Dennis Bovell. Other performers include The Marvels; and headliner Indika – Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s long-standing touring band. Bermondsey Beat duo Phil Burkett and Russell Dryden have been in charge of organising top music acts for the carnival for the past nineteen years. “We try to put on a line-up that appeals to everyone across the borough and we like to have young artists as well as older artists,” Phil told the News. “People love the day – and it’s a fantastic free day which is really rare in this day and age. “Southwark Council has always supported us and we are in their debt for their continuous support and help making this event what it is.” Cllr Johnson Situ, Southwark
Indika
Council’s cabinet member for business, culture and social regeneration, added: “The carnival is an amazing day out for the whole family, and once again Bermondsey Beat has a great music programme lined up for us." The Bermondsey Carnival was originally set up more than 100 years ago to raise funds for the families of victims of the Boer War and those injured. It was popular in the 1960s and ‘70s but declined in popularity in the ‘80s. Fortunately, it was brought back in the ‘90s and has been a regular summertime fixture in Southwark ever since. Other highlights will include the annual Rumble in the Jumble – a mass jumble sale where you might be lucky enough to find a hidden treasure – and the Reuben Bonds funfair. The free festival, organised by Southwark Council and Bermondsey Beat, will take place in Southwark Park on Saturday, July 1, from 12pm to 8pm. Janet Kay
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Southwark commander ‘would lead’ merged command unit with Lambeth
Pilot scheme by Met police already being run in five other London boroughs EXCLUSIVE
By Owen Sheppard
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THE BOROUGH commander of Southwark police has been chosen to lead a mooted merged command unit with Lambeth, the News can reveal.
An email from Lambeth borough commander, chief superintendent Richard Wood, has all but confirmed controversial proposals to merge the 32 Met Police borough command units into just twelve. And his email, which has been seen by the News, said Southwark’s borough commander, chief superintendent Simon Messinger, would take charge of the merged Southwark/Lambeth unit. The London-wide merger plans first appeared in a public consultation of the Met’s draft 2017-21 Police and Crime Plan. Under the merger, inner-London boroughs would join in pairs and outerLondon boroughs would be grouped in
threes. A pilot is already being run between the Islington and Camden boroughs, as well as three-way pilot between Havering, Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham. It is also thought that Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley could merge. It was stated in the draft Police and Crime Plan that the mergers would help shave fifteen per cent off the Met’s overall expenditure, by reducing back-office costs. Details have yet to emerge as to whether this would been cuts to staff numbers. In the email, Mr Wood said: “I can confirm that Ch Supt Simon Messinger will be the BCU [borough command unit] commander for Lambeth and Southwark. “[Mr Messinger] is someone I hold in the highest regard and consider to be an exceptional leader and police officer. I simply cannot speak highly enough of him, and I am sure you will share my sentiments once you have enjoyed the opportunity to work with him yourself.” The email also revealed that Mr Wood “has been asked to take
Bankside and Peckham plan street parties to show community strength
charge of the Homicide Command”. But he says there is “no fixed time scale” for his departure, and the merger proposal “is still to be ratified” by the Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick and the mayor of London’s office for police and crime. “If approved, it is anticipated the merging process will begin in early 2018. If the changes go as planned, I believe you will start to see Mr Southwark Borough Commander Simon Messinger
Messinger in and around the borough from the autumn onwards,” his email said. Florence Eshalomi, London Assembly member for Southwark and Lambeth, who has previously criticised the proposals, told the News: “It makes me question, are they trying to rush this under the radar? Which wouldn’t be a good look. “Lambeth officers were first to respond to the
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Great Get Together bashes this weekend
By Owen Sheppard
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TWO NEIGHBOURHOOD groups in Bankside and Peckham are planning huge street parties this weekend, following the London Bridge terror attack, and as part of a national Great Get Together initiative to mark the first anniversary of MP Jo Cox’s murder.
On Saturday June 17, in Warwick Gardens, Peckham, a party will be held from 1pm to 5pm with the aim of helping local “meet neighbours, share food and have fun”. There will be free hand massages, glitter face-painting, a table tennis tournament, yoga demo, swing dancing, and kids’ ballet. Local Reggae artist Ras Keith and the Organic Rootz will also perform. On Sunday, the Bankside Open Spaces Trust will host a party from 12pm to 9pm in Redcross Way, Union Street and Flat Iron Square. The Trust said their party has “taken on a new significance” following the terror attack on June 3. “Our community in this part of
Southwark, which includes Borough Market and London Bridge, remains in a reflective, sombre mood,” a notice from the Trust said. “Despite the events of last weekend, the community is undimmed and united and this event will reflect the strength, friendship and resilience of the community groups, businesses and residents in the area and the determination that this continues to flourish.” The Bankside party promises entertainment including live music over four stages, from a variety of artists and DJS, including SuperGlad, Corsica Studios, Pandemonium Drummers (from the London 2012 Olympic Games), Purcell School, and the NHS Choir. There will also be local comedians ahead of their Edinburgh Festival shows, and scenes re-enacted from selected Shakespeare works. Contact Alex and Keira for information about the Warwick Gardens party by emailing them on fwgchair@gmail.com. Organisers of the Bankside party can be contacted on info@bost.org.uk.
BUILDING BRIDGES PUPILS OF all ages at Redriff Primary School, in Rotherhithe, built a giant human bridge to celebrate bridges week.
Westminster terror attack, and Southwark officers were first to respond to this [the London Bridge terror attack]. It’s bad timing, and we need to keep on it with this.” She previously labelled the proposals “a cost cutting exercise that we don’t want”. Explaining the merger proposals, the Met’s draft Police and Crime Plan said: “The aim of this approach is to improve response to crime that crosses Borough boundaries, reduce the amount the Met spends on management and maximise the amount we can spend on frontline policing such as neighbourhood teams and 999 response. “The larger command units also bring together specialist officers into larger, more locally based teams, strengthening their capacity to investigate serious crimes and support victims.” Mr Wood and Mr Messinger both preferred not to comment. The Met Police did not wish to comment, but told the News that the proposals have yet to be confirmed.
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And they were only given 6 days’ warning By Chiara Giordano
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DOZENS OF residents were left “furious” after being given just six days’ warning that their parking bays would be taken over by work lorries for four years.
Residents in Hawkstone Road, Rotherhithe, received a letter from Tideway on June 3 notifying them that their parking bays would be used as a holding area for about 30 vehicles from June 9 until 2021. Tideway is in the process of building a tunnel through the River Thames to control sewer overflow discharges and one of the main worksites is at nearby Chambers Wharf, in Bermondsey.
The organisation planned to use the parking bays on Hawkstone Road as a loading bay for the vehicles from the Bermondsey site from Monday to Saturday – and to move residents’ parking to the opposite side of the
road. But Tideway has come under fire from both residents and the council after failing to consult with the community. Valerie Hodson, who has lived in
Hawkstone Road for more than 50 years, said the first residents knew about it was a letter through their front door. “We are really, really furious, the lots of us,” said the 60-year-old. “There has been no consultation period and it’s such a major thing and it’s to go on for four years. “We get huge congestion on the other side going towards Rotherhithe Tunnel so if somebody arrives home they won’t be able to get parked. “There’s a disabled bay for one of our tenants who is taken to the hospital regularly by her son – she’s really worried because she doesn’t know how she will get out.” Cllr Ian Wingfield, Southwark Council’s cabinet member for environment and the public realm, told the News that the council had discussed the issue with Tideway but it had “fallen on deaf ears”. “We’re extremely frustrated on behalf of residents that despite Tideway Tunnel promising to consult the community on all issues relating to their works, they appear
to be ploughing ahead regardless,” he said. “The council has had numerous conversations with Tideway about this issue, but they appear to have fallen on deaf ears. “It is for them to find a suitable location for the lorry holding area, in full consultation with residents. “We are now writing to Tideway to express our deep concerns about their failure to involve local people in their plans, and have instructed officers that no requests relating to parking or any other matter will be considered by us, until we are confident the community has been consulted.” A spokesperson for Tideway said: “Following feedback from the community, we are currently reviewing the proposed vehicle holding area in Hawkstone Road. “We are working closely with Southwark Council to find a solution.” The News put the council’s comments to Tideway but did not receive a reply before going to press.
‘We’re open as usual’ says Plan for hotel above Kennedy’s landlord of under threat pub ROTHERHITHE
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Publican fears people think it is already shut
By Owen Sheppard
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PLANS HAVE been drawn up to build a fourteen-room hotel above the much-love grade-II listed Kennedy’s sausage shop in Walworth Road that opened 94 years ago.
A planning application submitted to Southwark Council shows the hotel would go above Kennedy’s, now an Italian restaurant. Three storeys would be added above Kennedy’s, while the shopfront would remain the same. A report accompanying the planning application described the shop as the last surviving branch of Kennedy’s, which started as a “ham and beef” dealers in Rye Lane in the 1870s. The report goes on to say that Kennedy’s once had 20 branches dotted around south London. “At the moment, many south London residents still fondly remember Kennedy's pies and sausages, the piles of bacon and slabs of cheese, and the uniformed sales assistants. But within a few years those memories are likely to fade. So the survival of an original shop, complete with labelled display
By Chiara Giordano
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THE LANDLORD of an underthreat Rotherhithe pub is reminding customers that it is open for business as usual - as he has heard people saying it is already closed.
cabinets, is important,” it said. The Walworth Road Kennedy’s branch opened in 1923, in what used to be a Victorian shoe shop. The shop was also damaged by a bomb in World War Two. Two neighbourhood groups, including the Walworth Society, were consulted before the application was made. Residents have until July 2 to reply to the online consultation. The plans were submitted by the building’s landlord, Rozi Khan, of Peckham.
The China Hall, in Lower Road, possibly faces closure after the freehold of the pub building was sold to developer Hamna Wakaf by owners Punch Tavern. Landlords Michael and Linda Norris were told last year that their lease would not be renewed when it comes to an end on May 28. They then received a letter from the new owner offering them a ten-year lease – but it was for £75,000 a year, which is almost double what the publicans pay now. The landlords of 34 years
successfully managed to get the pub listed as an asset of community value in February and have said they are willing to take the owner to court. However, no court date has been set and Mr Norris is keen to let customers know that the pub is open for business as usual.
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Brothers swap Southwark for Albert Square
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Pair to play siblings in new EastEnders family set to make big entrance tonight By Owen Sheppard
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TWO YOUNG brothers from Southwark will make their TV debut on EastEnders tonight, as part of a new family who move into 23 Albert Square.
The episode, broadcast at 7:30pm on BBC One, will feature brothers Riley, aged thirteen, and Chatham, aged eleven (real life brothers Tom and Alfie Jacobs). Both boys have learning difficulties, and will play characters with learning difficulties. Fans will see the boys’ single mum Karen Taylor (played by Lorraine Stanley from Call the Midwife) and their older siblings: children Keanu (Danny Walters) and Bernadette (Clair Norris), make quite an entrance as they pull up outside their
new East End home. The show’s executive producer Sean O’Connor described Karen as a “twenty-a-day lioness, bringing up her kids with no support, no money and a very loud mouth”. “Though they may lack cash, the Taylors have love and warmth in spades. This summer is going to be explosive as the Taylors settle in Walford. The Square will never be quite the same again,” Sean said. The family move in from a nearby tower block that is due for demolition. The house they live in is shared upstairs with another couple who have also moved in. The two local lads will mainly be seen in and around the house, accompanying and having dialogue with their mum, Karen, who will play the most crucial part in the new storyline.
Walford’s new family; Keanu Taylor (played by Danny Walters), Riley Taylor (Tom Jacobs), Chatham Taylor (Alfie Jacobs), Bronson the dog, Karen Taylor (Lorraine Stanley) and Bernadette Taylor (Clair Norris)
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Pilgrims celebrate 50 year journey School appeals for old photos and stories
PILGRIMS WAY School is appealing for people to give them old photos of the school as it prepares to mark its 50th year.
The Peckham primary also wants to speak to former pupils to share stories from their school days. Current pupils will be recreating a room from each decade that the school has been open as part of the celebrations.
Other activities include a piece of art, which will feature contributions from pupils; a screening of the movie Happy Go Lucky, filmed at the school by director Mike Leigh; a play to be performed at Theatre Peckham; and an historic treasure hunt. Anyone who wants to help can contact Yolanda Houston on 07770 347616 or email yhouston.210@lgflmail.org
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Top marks! - School rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted
Year 2 pupils with principal Jo Conduit, Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich
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AN EAST Dulwich school has been given an ‘outstanding’ rating after its first ever inspection by Ofsted.
Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich in Lordship Lane was opened
in 2014. In their report, published on June 6, the government inspectors commented that the school had established itself thanks to “strong leadership”, and said pupils were “polite and courteous”, with “impeccable” behaviour. Inspectors said: “Leaders have
designed an exciting curriculum that successfully meets the needs and interests of the pupils. They ensure pupils get rich experiences that draw on the local community and include a wider range of visits. The early-years provision is outstanding. It is extremely well led. Staff ensure that children have the best
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start to their education by setting high challenges. As a result, children make rapid progress from their starting points.” School principal Jo Conduit said: “I am so grateful to the staff, children, parents, governors and the Harris Federation who have all played their
Woman expected to recover after bus collision
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A WOMAN who was knocked down in a collision with a bus in Queen’s Road, Peckham last week is expected to make a full recovery. The collision was reported shortly at 8:30am on June 9, at the junction
with Asylum Road. Police said the woman, who was aged in her fifties, suffered injuries that were not life-threatening or lifechanging. The woman was taken to King’s College Hospital by London Air Ambulance. The bus driver stopped at the scene, and no arrests were made.
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Sue’s love of Borough Market
AS BOROUGH Market reopens, I thought you might like to publish a poem written by my 81 year old mother, Sue Adams.
She lives in sheltered housing just behind the Market and heard the terrified screaming of people feeling the attackers yards from her bed. Catherine Adams, via email
FLORENCE ESHALOMI
Borough Market
I love The Borough Market This is where I am This is where I choose to live I love the place I love the people I love the colours I love the fact that it's so cosmopolitan I love the confusion I love the history I love the welcome here for everyone I love the roof and the pillars and I can assure you I am absolutely not afraid
A band of committed companions to form AS A local resident, who walks down Borough High Street several times a day and visits Borough Market every week, all my thoughts have been on Saturday evening’s horrific terrorist attacks.
I am a Londoner born and bred. I respect and admire our courage and our resilience. This time, though, it seems to me that we need to find the words that go beyond our wish to carry on as normal. We have to reach out to each other, to take a stand, and to begin the painful process of recognising the terrible losses our community faces. I am not sure that we can go back to carrying on as normal because, in some way, I suspect that things can never be quite the same again. Our neighbours and our visitors are bereaved, and many are lying in hospital. Local residents are shaken and traumatised by what they have seen. A lot of us are facing the difficult task of explaining this this to our children. My Jewish tradition, in common with Islam, teaches that one who destroys one life is like someone who has destroyed a whole world. Those people’s lives, and their worlds, are lost. And though our London world has not been destroyed, it has been changed. We will all be a lot more watchful now. I am determined, also, to watch out for my neighbours. This includes members of the local Muslim community, who are as shocked, puzzled and perplexed as I am. They, too, lack the language to explain this experience. At 8am on Sunday morning, I was trying to reach Father Jonathan Sedgwick of the St George the Martyr Church, in Borough, on his mobile phone. At that moment, he was trying it get into the Church, which lay inside the security cordon, for a family service to celebrate the festival of Pentecost. Later that morning, I was on my way to the Baitul Aziz Mosque on Harper
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BOROUGH MARKET RE-OPENS Row to speak to leaders there. On Sunday afternoon, we all came together to walk around our community as a group of local faith leaders. I am certain that we saw, in that moment, that we must grasp this task, creating security out of common ground, committing to what we have in common, and doing what none of us can do alone. I am looking forward to bringing together this group of faith leaders into what we call in Hebrew a chevre (a band of committed companions). Perhaps, like the wonderful, diverse, and strong community we have here in Borough, we can lead the way in treasuring our differences, challenging violence, and in using the power of our courage to stand up to those violent extremists who wish to force us to live our lives in fear. Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu is rabbi at Kehillah North London
Coyle - ‘An honour’
I'D LIKE to extend my thanks to all of you who have put your trust in me to serve you again.
You chose a Labour agenda focused on delivering the housing we need, investing in our education and NHS and ensuring the police have all the resources and powers they need. That the Lib Dems chose lies and deceit in their shockingly negative campaign says enough about their disgraced party and why they lost so heavily here. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart: you're the best and it is an honour to represent you! Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark
Hughes - ‘I will continue to serve’
I WANT to say a personal thank you to the thousands of people who voted for me and supported me during the election. I am profoundly grateful. In Bermondsey and north Southwark, although Labour won this time, Liberal Democrats did not go backwards. We increased our vote here to 18,189 -
more Liberal Democrat voters here than in 5 of the last 9 elections. And we have won 8 out of the last 10 parliamentary elections in this seat. Liberalism and liberal democracy in Bermondsey and the rest of Southwark is strong and resilient. Liberals are proud of the ways in which we have served and will continue to serve our borough - one of the most challenging, diverse and wonderful places in England. I invite all who supported me to continue to work with me to challenge the Conservatives nationally and the Labour council locally. Please join or support us: simon@simonhughes.org.uk or 02072378444. Everybody in Southwark can be confident that I and all other Southwark Liberal Democrats fully intend to get back to winning ways here and around the country as soon as possible. Simon Hughes, former MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark
Cheated of my vote
I LIVE in the Silverlock Estate which is Rotherhithe SE16.
Imagine my shock when I went to vote for my chosen candidate only to be told I couldn't as I now come under Peckham/Camberwell. Apparently this is due to the boundaries being moved. I think this is disgusting . I feel I have been cheated of my vote as most of the names on the ballot paper I have never even heard of. Surely it's my right to vote for who I want not someone forced on me? Christine Mann, Rotherhithe
Visionary manifesto
A HEARTFELT congratulations to all three of our Southwark MPs returned for Labour with significant increases in their majorities, on the back of a visionary manifesto.
Whatever the national result, I hope that here in Southwark, MPs and constituents can work together in campaigns to make these ideas law. Jasper Richardson, Peckham
T’S OVER. The votes have been counted and now it’s back to work for our three outstanding MPs from Southwark.
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Does Coyle not recognise Corbyn?
ONE GUESSES Neil Coyle MP of the constituency of Bermondsey & Old Southwark will be all smiles and pumpedup self-satisfaction after his greatly enhanced win in the general election.
Let's hope he recognises and accepts that Labour activists young and old wholly loyal to the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn MP, who knowing of Coyle's strident antiCorbyn stance, decided to bite their lips over Coyle's disloyalty to the Labour leadership. And, yet those loyal Labour members still joined enthusiastically into his constituency campaign to bolster Neil Coyle's successful candidacy and re-election in a tight marginal that could so easily have gone back to the LibDems. Any humble pie to offer all the loyal Corbyn helpers who won it for you and to celebrate your win Mr Coyle? Patrick O'Dowd, Peckham
MPs, will you oppose Heathrow expansion?
NOISE FROM low-flying planes en route to Heathrow, starting from 4.30am seven days a week, is blighting the lives of many Southwark residents.
Expanding Heathrow with a new runway would be the most damaging infrastructure project in the UK for climate change and air pollution. Southwark Green Party calls on the borough's re-elected MPs, Neil Coyle, Harriet Harman and Helen Hayes, to tell us: will they act in the interests of Southwark residents by opposing airport expansion? Their constituents deserve a straight answer. Eleanor Margolies and Phil Vabulas, Co-chairs, Southwark Green Party
I would like to offer my congratulations to all our Members of Parliament, it was a tough campaign but as they know all too well the hard work is still to come. On Saturday 3rd June, the election campaign drew to an immediate halt when our city, our borough, faced a horrendous terrorist attack. I would like to use this opportunity to publicly express my deep shock and sadness at the events that took place. For the families that lost loved ones, and those who were injured, I am so sorry for your suffering. I would like to thank our brilliant police force in Southwark who acted quickly and with such bravery. Londoners will not give in and they will return to their daily lives – but for those who choose to serve and protect us- they face these and other dangers regularly and the way they acted, swiftly and boldly, is utterly commendable. They have truly done us proud. Our borough faced another tragedy in these past two weeks. One of our children – 17 year old Abdirahman Mohamed was killed with a knife on Friday 2nd June in Peckham. Yet again we are faced with another life taken so early and so senselessly in our community. Across London knife crime has seen eight teenagers die this year alone. This truly appalling increase in violent crime cannot be allowed to continue and it is reassuring that the Mayor, Sadiq Khan, is soon to launch his knife crime strategy so that we can tackle these atrocities and save other families the pain of losing a loved one. With a new government, Southwark continues to be in an uncertain position. The election campaign did not address many of the salient concerns of the people of Southwark. The government have not addressed the need to invest in more police, they said nothing about rail devolution and improving the standard of the private rail companies. We did not get any answers over the proposed cuts to education funding in Southwark. I say to Theresa May that the people of Southwark have had enough when it comes to the austerity which is leaving our police under resources to meet emerging threats. That leaves our schools begging parents for cash to pay for essentials, or the squeezing NHS funding. I am still none the wiser over their plans to fund social care. We have elected a super group of Southwark MPs who I know have had enough of the government’s excuses and will represent the people of Southwark against this continuing austerity. This election has left Southwark with more questions than answers – but I will work with our MPs to fight for you and bring the government to account.
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2 years have passed but never forgotten
Always in our thoughts God bless you
Lots of love, John & Nina
Father’s day
Tony Rolfe
Being adopted was the best thing that happened to me, because I got this wonderful man to be MY DAD x x He really is the best dad in the whole world to me x x Happy Father’s day Dad Love Daddy’s little girl x x x
Well how am I going to top that, Happy Father’s day Dad, from your eldest. Have a great day x x x
Kay Elizabeth Harris
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Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday. Unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and very dear. And as this fourth year passes by, it still hurts and we still cry. Remembering you today and always Forever in our thoughts, with all our love, Mum, Dad, Wendy, Pam, Paul, Denny, Charlie, Chloe & Jodie, Friends & family
Birthday
Nicky Rolfe
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday on this very special day From Joe, Reece, Shancy and little lady Mum & Dad, and everybody at Southwark Parents Autistic group for all your help
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No matter how we spend our days, no matter what we do, no morning dawns or evening falls, without our thoughts of you. There’s always a face before us, a voice we would love to hear, a smile we will always remember of the one we all loved so dear. R.I.P now Tony Loved & remembered always by Mum, Dad, sons Milo & Marcus, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles & nephews x x x
A light went out on Earth for me The day we said goodbye And on that day a star was born, The brightest in the sky Reaching through the darkness With its rays of purest white Lighting up the Heavens As it once lit up my life With beams of love to try and heal The broken hearts you left behind
To Daddy/Luke Happy Father's Day, 1st Father's day with your princess, Thanks for all you do for us, you're one in a million. All our love forever, James, Louie & Lyla xxxxxxx
Scottish Nationals 2017 (World Qualifiers) Best of Luck to all our Girls competing, be Brilliant and enjoy! Team DWD x
To place a family announcement contact Em on 0207 232 1639 or email em@southwarknews.co.uk
HAVE A GREAT FATHER’S DAY
Happy Father’s Day Steven Kiddey Love you lots, Josh & Jess xxx
To the best dad Our Big Tone, Happy Father's Day. We love you! Love Candi and Milli x x x
To a our wonderful grandad Charlie xx Always there for us your a super grandad one in million xx We love you with all our hearts from Courtney, Chloe and Maddison x x Our daddy James is the best dad in the world Happy Father’s day We love so much Love from your girls Courtney, Chloe and Maddison x x x To my daddy Robert Brown Happy Father's Day, you are the best, love your little boy, Charlie x x x
To Robert Brown, thanks for always being there for us, love Mollie, Teddie and Frankie x x x Happy Father’s day from your boys Nobbie and Toffee x x x
Happy Father's Day Yayo!Love you to the moon and back! Love Jack, Olly, Eadie and Luna x x x Thanks for everything you do for me looking forward to new season in the championship down the den. Love from Ronnie-boy x x x
Roy Norris, miss you every day, love you always dad. Love and kisses, Carol Remembering my dad Dave As your only child I was the only one to call you dad, today was always our day, and always will be. Karen x x x Patrick Mead - Happy Father's Day to the best dad ever love Alfie, Callum & Johnny x x x
I miss you with every bone in my body Love Mum
Father’s Day message for Ray McLaren Thinking of you darling on Fathers’ Day and every day. You’re always in my heart and thoughts. I’ll miss you so much. God bless, Vera xxx Patrick Mead Happy Father's Day Thank you for always being there lots of love Becky x x x
Wishing the best dad and grandad a very Happy Father's day. We love you very much. Love Leanne, Jodie and Jon. Also your grandchildren. Jack, Olly, Eadie and Luna. xxx
Ted Jeff. Thinking of our darling Dad on Father’s Day. Sadly missed every day, always in our hearts and thoughts. Lots of love Pauline and Vera x x x
To James Hurley Happy Father’s Day the best Dad in the world He is my best friend & dad and I love him very much. Love Alfie Hurley xxx Have a wonderful day dad
To my amazing dad Derek McManus. There’s no doubt you will have an amazing Fathers Day... because I will be home from Tenerife. Love you lots, Daddy Bear x x x To the best Dad in SE22! Have a lovely day. All our love Katherine and Sam x x x
To the best Dad in SW12. No more shuffling! All my love, Roz x x x
Happy Father’s day Daddy I love you Thank you for our new house Florence x x x
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Happy Father’s day Farvie Mick Have a great day Love Alfie, Bowley & Hurley x x x
Brain Thank you for being you, and the best Dad we could hope for. Love Weedy, Darren, and Lee x x x Dear Tony Happy Father’s Day Thank you for everything, lots of love, Rose x x x
To the best Dad in the world, I don't know what we would do without you, love you so much love Kellie, Jamie, Billy and all the grandkids xxxxxx Our dear grandad Ray and Grandad Perce Thinking of you both on Father's Day, we love and miss you so much. Lots of love Candi and Milli Percival xx
To our Dad, another Father’s day without you, missing you, love you from all the Conneely family x x x
To our wonderful Dad, Grandad and Great Grandad George Gibson Thanks for everything you are our rock especially with Mum Love you loads Kim, Gary, Karen, Ann, Paul, Hayley, Luke, Billy, Hollie, Heidi, Chelsea, Poppy, Lillie, Darcy, Georgy Boy & April x x x Happy Father’s Day Daddy I love you all the stars in the sky Lots of love, Lily-Rose F xxxxxxx
To Jonfon Viking, Happy Father’s love you all the World forever and ever Christine x x x Johnfon Viking Happy Father's day Love you all the world Chrissie x x x
To Blue Another Father’s day without you Miss you, love you x x x
Grandad Viking Happy Father’s Day, we love you to moon and back, love Lily-Rose xx, Brooke-Lyn xx Ellie-May xx Jamie xx To the Best Dad in the World, Michael Ryan Happy Father’s day, Thank you for everything you do for me, Love you lots, your princess Maisie x x x Happy Father’s Day Bobby Jukes, Love and miss you always Liam, Bobby & Katie xxx
To Daddy/Luke Happy Father's Day, 1st Father's day with your princess, thanks for all you do for us, you're one in a million. All our love forever, James, Louie & Lyla xx Ted Morris Dad, Thinking of you today and every day, miss you loads Love Glen x x x
Frankie Shaw To Dadm Happy Father’s Day Love you lots and lots Love from your two boys Frankie and Ashley x x x
Bill Murray Dad, Grandad, Great Grandad Miss you so much We will never forget you Love you forever. Love Fran, Carly, Frankie, Little Frankie and Ashley x x x
To the best daddy in the whole wide world!!! We hope your day is as special as you are to us. Love Freddy & Poppy x x x
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I'VE ALWAYS loved Edgar Allan Poe, ever since we did the 'The Tell Tale Heart' in English class - The dark and macabre tales always sent a delicious chill down the old spine. So it was with great excitement I entered the The Brockley Jack for a fun night of death and despair, writes Matt Baker...
After a chat and some nibbles we were called up to the theatre and the evening began. 'The Masque of the Red Death', tells the story of a pestilence that sweeps the land and of the last few people seeking refuge in the nefarious Prince Prospero's Abbey. The guests indulge their every whim until a mysterious figure turns up,
then death is in the air. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' follows a man's desperate attempt to rescue his beloved from a house
The colour of Africa THE AFRICA Centre opened in London in the 60s to give a voice to Africans in this country who may have been fleeing war, revolution or a government that did not agree with their views. It was a time of change on the continent with many nations seeking independence, writes Michael Holland...
These days the Africa Centre is still in London but now has new premises in two refurbished railway arches in Southwark. The Hub will provide affordable coworking space for the diaspora, a place where art, culture, culinary arts and tech development and creativity can cohabit, offering flexible membership to young entrepreneurs, start-ups, creatives and artists in a contemporary space that has a strong African Footprint. It even has its own radio station Colourful Radio - that broadcasts online and DAB to the country, and is a good mix of music and talk. Staff, writers, performers, directors, filmmakers and media professionals work together in amazing surroundings brought to life with style and colour by young London designer Yinka Ilori.
Yinka arrived at the centre on his bike to talk to Weekender about his life and work and his designs for the Hub. Born in The Angel, Islington to Nigerian parents, Yinka was expected to be an engineer, a lawyer or doctor, but they knew he had a vision to work in design and let him forge his own path. He tells of how they were worried that he would not make a good career from designing furniture, ‘as any parents would’. After graduating from London Metropolitan University he wanted to start his own practice so wrote a business plan for The Prince’s Trust who gave him a loan of £3000. ‘It was like Dragon’s Den,’ recalls Yinka. ‘You present your plan to a panel of four people, who read it and approve it or not.’ His career began from that point on it wasn’t long before he realised he was being offered bigger and better projects. We sat in chairs that Yinka had upcycled, ‘giving them a second chance’, as he puts it. He compares the chairs he found abandoned before working on them to those people with a criminal record that follows them around, when they want to
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where no one ever leaves. An excellent cast give a superb performance, and the atmosphere is wonderfully dark. The space at the Brockley Jack is used to great effect and the staging clever and very effective. Importantly, the essence of Poe's work is captured in a way that will leave hard core fans and novices alike delighted they came. Another excellent show at a fantastic venue. Well worth a trip down to deepest, darkest Brockley! Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, SE4 2DH Until 24 June 2017 Tuesday to Saturday at 7.45pm Admission: £15, £12 concessions Phone: 0333 666 3366 Website: www.brockleyjack.co.uk
show they have changed. ‘I see chairs as people,’ he says honestly, ‘and try to give them a new lease of life.’ The seat coverings and a mural he has designed for The Hub bring a piece of West Africa into SE1 with bright colours reminiscent of the wonderful outfits African women wear for Sunday church. He explains that the colours remind him of times spent with family at church or parties, ‘they’re about being together… Colour makes me smile.’ Coming up in September is another project with The Hub which is still at the planning stage but could be an installation and performance, Yinka reveals. The Africa Centre, Arch 29, Union Street, SE1 0LR. Free trial offer http://www.africacentre.org.uk/thehub.html www.yinkailori.com
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Island of screams
Taking its title from the 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz, There’s No Place Like Home is Jonathan Baldock’s largest solo show to date. Newly commissioned and previously unseen works will populate both spaces at cgp london including an extensive installation at Dilston Grove.
Jonathan Baldock has created this new body of work honing techniques and crafts traditionally associated with the home: felting, basket weaving, candle making, appliqué and stitching allude to idealised domestic bliss and gendered roles. Some iconic references from The Wizard of Oz create an interplay with scale, terrors and wonder bordering on the monstrous. A host of sculptures collaborate and become a chorus: a pouting stained glass window; a human-scale votive candle adorned with waxen ears; a wicker-chain morphs into a human spine; chandeliers shaped like breasts suspend over us with intent; a sandy table in the form of an eye are vying for attention. This fractured human body is patrolled by a mysterious, statuesque white horse further
creating a surreal setting. Dilston Grove having been a historic church, one of the first concrete buildings of its size in Britain, still carries the idea and the scale of the ritualistic. With Baldock’s work occupying such a cavernous space where sculptures are stretching from floor to ceiling, we are encouraged to step within the artist’s created reverie loaded with mythological, folkloric and ceremonial meaning. The Dilston Grove installation will become animated when Baldock collaborates with Vancouver’s Kokoro dance company who will interact within it, in bespoke, sculptural costumes via a series of performances in the gallery space on 2 and 8 July (4pm) and on the evening of Friday 7 July (7-9pm). Free, but booking required. There’s No Place Like Home is at Gallery by the Pool, 1 Park Approach, Southwark Park, SE16 2UA And Dilston Grove 15 June - 30 July Thursday - Sunday - 11am-5pm Free Admission
Double act double This stage ain’t big enough for the four of us!
Are children and adults sometimes the same? What does adulthood really mean? And what kind of things do both find funny? The Unicorn Theatre presents Double Double Act, a lively and playfully subversive interrogation of the roles and expectations children and adults have of each other, and what makes a good joke. And who really is funny? Or, for that matter, the funniest? Two double acts – one old and one young – have been booked to perform in the same space at the same time. As they each vie for control of the stage, they joke, mirror and test each other, reversing roles and expectations. With ingenious wordplay, sharp delivery and lots of green slime, Double Double Act offers both adults and children the chance to see the world through the others’ eyes. The production will feature 4 children who will be performing as themselves
and have helped create the show alongside the company. The children performing are Seb Booth (Aged 8), Nayana Crowe (Aged 10), Caitlin Finlay (Aged 7) and Caspian Tarafdar (Aged 7). For each performance Jessica Latowicki and Christopher Brett Bailey will perform alongside two of the children. Double Double Act is at the Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, SE1 2HZ Tuesday 20 June to Sunday 9 July 2017 Admission: £12 (concessions £3 off); under 18s from £8 Phone: 020 7645 0560 Website: www.unicorntheatre.com Age guide: 6+ / Duration: Approx 1 hr
COME ON EILEEN!
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The ‘timid girl’ who brought women’s cycling to the world stage
VICTORIA PENDLETON and other female Olympic cyclists are household names these days, but women-on-wheels compete at the same level as their male counterparts now because of the spirited determination of a Bermondsey-born cyclist.
Eileen Gray - a “timid and very mousey” girl, who grew up in Dulwich, would go on to found the Women’s Cycle Racing Association and help get women’s bicycle racing recognised as an Olympic sport. Born on April 25 1920, Eileen lived nearby to the Herne Hill velodrome but cycling didn’t come onto her radar until she started working in a factory during the Second World War. As her mum was ill and in the Maudsley at the time, Eileen wasn’t called up but was instead put to work checking engine parts on the Harrow Road. When the buses and trains went on strike she was late for work and got a telling off from her boss. “I thought ‘right, you’re not getting me again’,” Eileen recalled in an interview with British Cycling in 2010. She got hold of an old bike and rode it all the way from Dulwich to Harrow Road every day. “….round the rubble and the potholes, through all weathers, night and day, but I was never late again, and he never had another opportunity to tell me off,” she said. That old bike and that journey to work turned out to be a life-changing experience for young Eileen, who felt her character transformed by the freedom of the open road. “I was really shy as a young girl - timid and very mousey. And I would probably have stayed that way had it not been for this old bike that I was given during the war,” she said. “I can’t remember where it came from but I do know that it was the one thing that changed me from that shy young woman into the confident person that I became.” In the days when there was no money for leisure activities and everyone made their own fun, Eileen became a keen cyclist and ended up joining the Apollo Cycling Club near where she lived and became an accomplished cyclist. “None of the other clubs allowed women to ride. But the Apollo was great and very welcoming. I made so many friends……I had to be pushed home from my first club run because I was so tired, but I kept going back for more,” she said. In post-war Europe, sport was used as a way of bringing battling nations back together and cycle racing was hugely popular. In 1946, a track cycle event was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, where unusually the event organisers decided to run a women’s race as a
Eileen Gray racing on her bike (main); in later years (top) and (at left) competing in Copenhagen in 1946 (above)
‘sideshow’. Three women from the UK were invited to compete, including Eileen, in what was the first ever British women’s international team. “It was a great opportunity for us,” said Eileen. “People today would laugh at even the suggestion that permission had to be given by half of society to the other half to do something that they did as part of everyday life, but that’s the way it was back then. "Men ruled women and women had to wait to be invited, never mind they’d kept the whole country and the war effort going on their own for six years, as well as looking after their kids and doing women stuff - and all for only two thirds of the pay. But this was our chance – an invitation to show what we could do!” It turned out that the Danish team were members of a theatrical troupe who rode bikes as part of their act – which tells you how seriously the establishment took women’s sport at that time. Eileen’s team romped home to an
impressive victory but, unlike the men’s event, there were no medals or titles awarded. “Oh no, they just wanted us there as a side show but what they didn’t realise was that they’d given us a platform, visibility, and a chance to show what we could do. And other women saw us too and must have thought ‘if they can do it, so can I’ and from that point on, something started that they couldn’t stop,” said Eileen. The following year Eileen gave birth to her son but stayed heavily involved in cycling administration and founded the Women’s Track Racing Association (WTRA) in 1949, which became the Women’s Cycle Racing Association in 1956. Eileen achieved a breakthrough in 1955 when the Union Cycliste Internationale, the sport’s international governing body, agreed to recognise women’s world records. Soon after it was at Herne Hill velodrome where Daisy Franks set the first ever world record for women by
establishing a 550-metre flying start. These achievements brought an invitation from France for a British team to enter a three-day stage race at Roanne. As team manager, Eileen led her riders to victory - “…which I don’t think had been in the French plan,” she recalled wryly. The publicity around their win led to the same promoter putting on another event which he called “Le Tour de France Feminine” – which the British won too. In 1958 the first World Championships cycling event specifically for women was staged in France, but the progress Eileen was making was resented by some of their male counterparts. Instead of cheering them on patriotically, one had women banned from a track and another had stole their equipment while they were at an international competition. “He just did it to harm our chances. And it makes my blood boil to this day to hear him lauded for his contribution to UK cycling when he did
that to us,” said Eileen. From 1976 to 1986 Eileen Gray served as president of the British Cycling Federation (now British Cycling) and was invovled in cycle racing gaining Olympic status in 1984.She served as vice-chairman of the British Olympic Committee and was instrumental in the foundation of the London Youth Games in 1977. She was the mayor of Kingston upon Thames in the 90s and for more than 50 years she was a member of the Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Masons, one of two orders of women Freemasons in Britain, of which she became the Past Most Worshipful the Grand Master. She was given an MBE in 1978 and a CBE in 1997. Eileen Gray was predeceased by her husband Wally Gray and was survived by her son when she passed away in 2015 at the grand old age of 95. * This articles was sourced from the News archives.
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Sometimes with set menus and dishes created by ‘designer’ chefs you are pretty much restricted to what they say you can have. The nicest roast lamb in the world is not going to tickle my taste buds if served with cauliflower puree and quinoa, but if I was allowed to have that succulent meat with all the things that I like then I’m sure I would be frequenting a place like that more often. Didn’t someone famously say, ‘Build it yourself and they shall come’?, writes Michael Holland...
Well that’s exactly what Caroline in The Parlour is allowing. You can build your own breakfast, build your own brunch, build your own Buddha Bowl (more of that later), build your own smoothie, even build your own picnic for the park across the road! (Basket and blanket provided) Customers can pretty much build just about anything they want from a list of ingredients that runs the gamut from (A)vocado to (Y)oghurt (I scanned the menu for a Z but it just ain’t there…). In its two years The Parlour has been gauging what is lacking in Herne Hill and attempting to fill that gap. It is an area that has lots of good eats and drinks so this was not an easy task. They identified cakes and biscuits not coming in toddler bitesize, so that is now on the menu; those with allergies are catered for; the Parlour is both child and dog friendly with a good number of Pooch treats available. Event nights are constantly changing to supply an ever-increasing demand for them. (See website) On my arrival at this bright, open space Caroline told me I had just missed the toddler-rush, when the nannies and mummies come in for their elevenses while the kiddies crawl about among the games and toys. This was the quiet time, with a couple of ladies busy on their laptops. I was quite happy about that because as much as I love the little ones I needed to concentrate on the job at hand. I had the Parlour Eggs: Two poached eggs on an English Muffin with Spinach and Smoked Salmon. It was light, fresh and was the perfect
brunch. As I mopped up the last of the yolk the minute hand clicked round and brunch became lunch Time for a Buddha Bowl. I was like a kid in Hamleys overcome with all the choices to make so I handed over to Caroline who made me up blend of Cauliflower Rice, Nuts, Courgette, Chicken and Roast Veg, with a brilliant Olive Oil and Balsamic glaze that was the overarching taste to a dish of really interesting flavours that included the lemon in the courgette doing exciting things to the palate. For those who can’t be out late there is a Family Supper Club (Monday - Friday 5-7pm offering an
early supper menu of four dishes. Good for after-school dinners). Thursday night events have become popular. The café has become a place to learn new skills, share ideas, find locally handcrafted goods - as well as enjoying an evening menu or sharing plates. In the last six months The Parlour has hosted mindfulness classes, yoga and public speaking sessions, boutique shopping events, cheese and wine, a vegetarian curry club and a leather making workshop. My host was keen to get the message across that The Parlour is
somewhere for everyone and all tastes and interests, running off a list of local suppliers of the top quality produce she works with. But ultimately it is the quality of the food that goes before the customer, and I can honestly say that everything I had was excellent. The Parlour Herne Hill, 19 Norwood Road, SE24 9AA 0208 671 0759 www.theparlourhernehill.co.uk @coffeeparlour www.facebook.com/parlourhernehi ll8am - 7pm
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CRYPTIC PUZZLE Clues Across
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Solutions to last week’s crossword
CRYPTIC: ACROSS: 1 Paper hanger 9 Rum 10 Centipede 11 Impel 13 Sponges 14 Ghosts 16 Veneer 18 Harries 19 Ounce 20 Machinate 21 Oat 22 Asseverates DOWN: 2 Aim 3 Excel 4 Honest 5 Noisome 6 Evergreen 7 Crying shame 8 Sea serpents 12 Protracts 15 Thin ice 17 Estate 19 Opera 21 Ore QUICK: ACROSS: 1 Occupations 9 Peg 10 Introduce 11 Class 13 Scarabs 14 Argosy 16 Beggar 18 Imagine 19 Reach 20 Trampling 21 Map 22 Celebrating DOWN: 2 Cog 3 Units 4 Attest 5 Iron age 6 Neuralgia 7 Specialists 8 Censorships 12 Aggravate 15 Stipple 17 Senior 19 Right 21 Men
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TICKETS: 0871 22 44 007 Fri 16 June – Thu 22 June Kids Club THE INCREDIBLES (U) Sat 10.30am Toddler Time TRACTOR TED GOES FARMING (U) Mon & Tue 11.00am Big Scream CHURCHILL (PG) Fri 11.00am HOH Subtitled Wed 11.00am Discover Tuesdays SUNTAN (18) Tue 6.20 Vintage Sundays MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (15) Sun 1.00 Autism Friendly SING 2D (U) Sun 10.30 NT Live SALOMÉ (15) Thu 7.00 Exhibition on Screen British Museum Presents: HOKUSAI (PG) Sun 3.30 Culture Shock SER MÜDE TOD (PG) Mon 6.25 Preview BABY DRIVER (15) Thu 7.00 OPENING THIS WEEK: CHURCHILL (PG) Fri 3.50 (S/T), 6.10, 8.40 Sat 11.00am, 3.40, 6.10, 8.30 Sun 1.10, 5.40, 8.00 Mon 3.50, 6.10, 8.30 Tue 4.20, 6.40, 9.00 Wed 10.40am, 3.30, 6.10, 9.10 Thu 1.20, 3.50, 6.10, 9.00 FROM THE LAND OF THE MOON (15) Sat 3.50 Tue 8.45 CONTINUING: MY COUSIN RACHEL (12A) infrequent strong language, moderate sex Fri 1.00, 3.25, 6.30, 9.00 Sat 1.25, 6.30, 9.00 Sun 10.30am, 5.15, 7.45 Mon 1.30, 4.00, 6.20 (S/T), 8.40 Tue 1.25, 3.50, 6.10 Wed 1.10, 3.40, 6.20, 8.40 Thu 4.00, 6.30 MY COUSIN RACHEL (12A) HOH Subtitled infrequent strong language, moderate sex Mon 6.20 THE MUMMY 2D (15) Fri 1.10 Sat 1.10 Sun 10.40am Mon 1.15 Tue 1.50 Wed 1.00 Thu 1.30 WONDER WOMAN 2D (12A) moderate violence Fri 3.30, 6.00, 9.00 Sat 2.50, 5.50, 8.50 Sun 12.50, 4.00, 7.00 Mon 12.20, 3.20, 8.50 Tue 12.00, 3.10, 8.40 Wed 3.20, 8.50 Thu 12.00, 3.00, 8.30 MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE (PG) DUBBED Sat 1.00 Tue 11.30am Thu 11.40am MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE (PG) SUBTITLED Fri 11.15am Mon 11.45 Wed 11.20 THE RED TURTLE (PG) Fri 10.45am, 1.25 Sat 11.10am Sun 3.15 Mon & Thu 11.15am Tue 11.45 Wed 1.15
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16:20 17:20 19:30 20:30 Thu 11:00 14:10 17:20 20:30 WONDER WOMAN 2D (12A) 141 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Subtitle, TUE 16:20 GIFTED (12A) 101 Mins Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Subtitle, Wed 16:15 THE MUMMY 2D (15) 110 Mins Now Booking, No Guest Passes, Kids Club, Silver Screen, Newbies, Wheelchair, Audio Described, Infra Red, Induction Loop, Subtitle, Autism Friendly, Odeon Events, Bollywood, Screen Unseen, IMAX, I-MAX3-D, Isense, Gallery, DBox, MON 13:00
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Full or Part-time butchers required and Butchers Apprentice/Trainee Required for high quality shop in East Dulwich Good starting wage Excellent prospects
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to join our experienced team based in SE16. As repatriation executive your role will include:
The ability to speak either French or Italian fluently Liaise with families and corporate clients during the repatriation process Provide accurate daily updates to all parties involved Manage and update the company database management system The successful candidate must be friendly, flexible, caring, compassionate, proactive and willing to go the extra mile. On call duties are required on specific weekends and weekday evenings as part of our staff rota system. Salary is negotiable depending upon experience.
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TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that because of a crane operation by Bronzeshield Lifting Ltd, it intends to make an Order the effect of which would prohibit vehicular traffic in part of the above named road.
Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in Verney Road, between Verney Way and Rotherhithe New Road. The alternative route for affected traffic will be via: Rotherhithe New Road, Verney Way. The existing one way working in Verney Road, between, Rotherhithe New Road and Verney Way will be made two way for access and egress purposes.
Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The restriction will be in place between on the 1st – 2nd July 2017, if due to adverse weather conditions the works can be in place on either the 8th – 9th July or 15th – 16th July. Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
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Southwark Council, Environment and Social Regeneration, Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3558/ LBSCR9498 The Council of the London Borough of Southwark PUBLIC NOTICE: ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 16A THE (RESTRICTION OF TRAFFIC) SPECIAL EVENTS ORDER 2017
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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that it has made the above named Traffic Order under section 16A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for ` the purpose specified in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3. The purpose of the Order is to facilitate the Annual Summer Scandinavian Market as indicated in the schedule to this notice. The effect of the Order is to prohibit any vehicle from:-
(a) entering or proceeding in the length of street specified in the schedule to this notice on the date and between the hours specified in that schedule; (b) waiting (including waiting for the purpose of delivering or collecting goods or loading or unloading a vehicle) in the length of street specified in the schedule to this notice. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of:
(a) any vehicle being used for the purposes of that event or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes;
(b) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by the Council of the London Borough of Southwark. The alternative route will be via Albion Street, Renforth Street, Risdon Street, Neptune Street, as applicable.
For information regarding this event please contact Markets on 0207 525 6000 or for information relating to this order please contact: Network Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 15th June 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Environment and Social Regeneration, Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3629/3630 Schedule
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Extent Between Renforth Street – Neptune St Between Neptune Street - Old Lower Road (St Olav’s Business Centre) PartialClosure Width/Lane restriction
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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (BRANCH STREET, CLAUDE STREET, COSTA STREET, HIGHSHORE ROAD, NUTBROOK STREET, QUEEN ELIZABETH STREET, SNOWSFIELDS, SOUTHAMPTON WAY, TALFOURD ROAD 1. 2.
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(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable Highway works to be carried out, it made an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named roads.
Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in:
(a) Branch Street, at it’s junction with Southampton Way (b) Claude Road, between Heaton Road and Godman Road (c) Costa Street, between Mcdermott Road and Choumert Road (d) Highshore Road, between Lyndhurst Way and Bellenden Road (e) Nutbrook Street, between Adys Road and Troy Town (f ) Queen Elizabeth Street, between Horselydown Lane and Shad Thames (g) Snowsfields, between St Thomas Street and Kipling Street (h) Southampton Way, between Coleman Road to No’s 167 and Peckham Road to Charles Coveney Road (I) Talfourd Road, between Lyndhurst Grove and Peckham Rye Highshore Road, will be made two way between Bellenden Road and Lyndhurst Way for access and egress purposes.
The alternative route for (a) Diamond Street, Chandler Way. (b) Heaton Road, Pilkington Road, Godman Road. (c) McDermott Road, Choumert Grove, Choumert Road. (d) Bellenden Road, Peckham Road, Lyndhurst Way. (e) Dewar Street, Kinsale Road, Peckham Rye, Choumert Road, Bellenden Road, Maxted Road, Oglander Road, Adys Road, Amott Road. (f) Shad Thames, Tooley Street, Druid Street, Tower Bridge Road. (g) Weston Street, St Thomas Street, Tennis Street. (h) Southampton Way, New Church Road, |Bowyer Place, Camberwell Road, Peckham Road. (i) Lyndhurst Grove, Lyndhurst Way, Peckham Rye, Crofton Road as applicable. The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The works will be in place for (a) 6th – 10th July. (b) 7th July. (c) 15th – 16th July (d) 28th July. (e) 31st July – 1st August. (f) 13th – 14th July. (g) 31st July. (h) 1st July. (i)
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: (a) 3170/ 1475372/2. (b) 3711/ 1476283 (c) 3712/ 196741 (d) 3714/ 1474633/1 (e) 3716/14742233716 (f) 3718/ 1474326 (g) 3720/ 203152 (h) 3721/ 1472392 (i) 3628/1475913
Notice Under The Local Government Act 1972 Section 123(2A) (as amended)
Land forming part of St John’s Churchyard off Fair Street London SE1 “the Land” 2.
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TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK hereby gives notice that it has made an Order under Section 247 of the above Act to authorise the stopping up of the following areas of public highway shown hatched black on the plan attached to the Order:1. 2.
an area of footway on Roberts Close forming part of the existing junction to the rear of 24-28 Quebec Way and measuring between 5.46 metres and 5.55 metres in length and up to 1 metre in width; and an area of footway and carriageway forming part of the existing junction to the rear of 24-28 Quebec Way and measuring between 4.74 metres and 5.09 metres in length and 4.31 metres and 6.16 metres in width.
All of the areas stopped up fall within the London Borough of Southwark.
THE ORDER IS MADE to enable the development described in the Schedule to this Notice to be carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted under Part III of the Act by the Council on 4 March 2016 under local planning authority reference No. 15/AP/2217. COPIES OF THE ORDER AND THE RELEVANT PLANS MAY BE INSPECTED by way of appointment at the London Borough of Southwark, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2TZ by calling 020 7525 0266 and quoting reference (Roberts Close – Stopping Up Order). A copy may also be viewed on the Council’s website:http://www.2.southwark.gov.uk/downloads/download/4664/highway_stopping_up_orders
Any person aggrieved by the Order and desiring to question the validity thereof, or of any provision contained therein, on the ground that it is not within the powers of the above Act or that any regulation made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within 6 weeks of 15 June 2017, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision contained herein.
Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
Dated this 15th June 2017
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The Land is part of Borough Open Land and the freehold interest is held by the London Borough of Southwark, “the Council”.
Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 123(2A) of The Local Government Act 1972 that the Council intends to dispose of the Land. The Land is being disposed of by way of the grant of a lease to the Potters Field Park Management Trust for a term of years ending on 1 April 2037 and the terms of the Lease stipulate that the Land must remain subject to the provisions of the Open Spaces Act 1906. A copy of the plan showing the Land is available for inspection at the ground floor reception of 160 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2QH. Appointments are available between the hours of 10.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). Any objection or representation in respect of the disposal must be made in writing to Mr Patrick McGreal, Southwark Property, London Borough of Southwark at 160 Tooley Street London SE1 2QH (Email -patrick.mcgreal@southwark.gov.uk ; Tel – 0207 525 5626).
Dated: 15 June 2017
Stephen Platts Director of Regeneration, On behalf of the Council of the London Borough of Southwark P O Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX.
Deadline for public n o t i c e s i s Tu e s d a y a t 5 p m
Doreen Forrester-Brown Director of Law and Democracy THE SCHEDULE ‘Demolition of the existing building and redevelopment of the site to provide a mixed-use building ranging from 4 to 7 storeys plus basement comprising 94 residential units (Use Class C3) and flexible commercial floor space (Use Classes A1/A2/A3, B1, D1/D2); associated highway, public realm and landscaping works, car and cycle parking and associated works.’
Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003
Please take notice that I SOF - 10 Starlight 11 Operations Limited Have made application to the local licensing authority for a new Premises Licence in respect of Residence Inn By Marriott London Bridge, 201 Long Lane, London, SE1 4PN The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, on from the premises are The supply of alcohol: The provision of regulated entertainment: The provision of late night refreshment: Opening hours:
Days Mon - Sun Mon - Sun
Start time 07:00 07:00
Finish time 06:59 06:59
Mon - Sun
07:00
06.59
Mon - Sun
07:00
06:59
A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by Southwark Licensing Team, Regulatory Services, 3rd Floor Hub 1, PO Box 64529, London, SE1P 5LX - E-mail: licensing@southwark.gov.uk A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also on our web site at www.southwark.gov.uk/businesscentre/licensing/currentapplication It is open to any person to make representations about the likely effect of the grant of the premises licence on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below. Note: It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale. Date of application: 7th June 2017
Request for information concerning ownership of:-
Re: Land adjacent 72/72A Amott Road, London, SE15 4JD
Notice is hereby given that we, being OCA, have an interest in the matter of group of trees located Land to the rear of 57 Adys Road, London, SE15 4DX and land adjacent to 72/72A Amott Road, London, SE15 4JD and the nuisance in subsidence damage being caused to 72/72A Amott Road, London, SE15 4JD.
We are attempting to identify the relevant land owners in order to discuss available management options to abate the said nuisance. If any person has any knowledge of the owner of this land or other responsible party could they please make such knowledge known to us at the address below. In the event that we are unable to discover the owner of the land within a period of 30 days of this notice, then we will seek to enter the land and carry out the management works required. CONTACT: Jessica Leather OCA 2 THE COURTYARDS PHOENIX SQUARE SEVERALLS PARK WYNCOLLS ROAD COLCHESTER ESSEX CO4 9PE REF: 69791 TELEPHONE: 01206 754 999
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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark Council PUBLIC NOTICE ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 16A THE (RESTRICTION OF TRAFFIC) SPECIAL EVENTS ORDER 2016
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that it has made the above named Traffic Order under Section 16A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specified in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3. The purpose of the order is to facilitate a street party in the roads listed in the schedule to this notice. The effect of the Order is to prohibit any vehicle from:
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(a) Entering or proceeding in the length of the street specified in the schedule to this notice on the date and between the hours specified in that schedule; (b) Waiting (including waiting for the purpose of delivering or collecting good or loading or unloading a vehicle) in the length of street specified in the schedule to this notice. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of:
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(c) Any vehicle being used for the purposes of that event or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes;
(d) Anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by the Council of the London Borough of Southwark.
The alternative route will be adjacent roads as applicable.
For information regarding this notice, please contact Parking & Road Network management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 15th June 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & parking, Business Manager, Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, PO Box 64529, London, SE1 5LX Schedule
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that it has made the above named Traffic Order under section 16A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose specified in paragraph 2. The effect of the Order is summarised in paragraph 3. The purpose of the Order is to enable local communities to hold The Big Lunch Event on the dates listed in schedule 1 of this notice. The effect of the Order is to prohibit any vehicle from:-
(a) entering or proceeding in the length of street specified in the schedule to this notice on the date and between the hours specified in that schedule;
(b) waiting (including waiting for the purpose of delivering or collecting goods or loading or unloading a vehicle) in the length of street specified in the schedule to this notice. The prohibitions will not apply in respect of:
(a) any vehicle being used for the purposes of that event or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes;
(b) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a person authorised by the Council of the London Borough of Southwark. The alternative route will be adjacent roads as applicable.
For information regarding this event please contact Southwark Events Team on 0207 525 3422 or for information relating to this order please contact: Network Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 15th June 2017
Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager Southwark Council Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Schedule
Road
Extent
Knatchbull Road
Between McDowall Road and Camberwell Station Road
Dulwich Wood Avenue
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The Council of the London Borough of Southwark PUBLIC NOTICE: ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 16A THE (RESTRICTION OF TRAFFIC) SPECIAL EVENTS ORDER 2017
From Colby Road to Rusholme Grove
Tresco Road
Date of event
Prohibited Hours
Sunday 18th June 2017
2pm to 6:30pm
Saturday 17th June 2017
12 noon to 5pm
Sunday 18th June 2017
2pm to 6pm
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (LUGARD ROAD) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC)
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark and in consultation with Transport for London hereby gives notice that to enable bridge works to be carried out, it intends to make an order the effect of which will be to prohibit vehicular traffic from entering part of the above named road
Whilst the works are in progress, or whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, vehicles shall be prohibited from entering and exiting Lugard Road at it’s junction with Queens Road. The alternative route for affected traffic will be via Consort Road, Nunhead Lane, Hollydale Road. Lugard Road, Caulfield Road, Brayards Road, Hollydale Road, Evelina Road, Lausanne Road, Pomeroy Street, Old Kent Road, Asylum Road, .
Exemptions will be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
The restrictions will not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The works will take place on the 28th June – 16th August 2017, between 22:00 hrs and 05:00hrs
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 15th June 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council Environment and Social Regeneration Network Management PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX Ref: 3738/193724
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LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended)
PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 (as amended) The planning applications listed below can be viewed on the planning register at http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk You can use facilities at your local library or ‘My Southwark Service Points’ to access the website. How to comment on this application: You should submit your comments via the above link. Comments received will be made available for public viewing on the website. All personal information will be removed except your postal address. Online comments submitted without an email address will not be acknowledged and those marked ‘confidential’ will not be considered. Written comments can be submitted to; Southwark Council, Chief executive's department, Planning division, Development management, PO Box 64529, London SE1 5LX. Reason for publicity. The applications are advertised for the reasons identified by the following codes: ACA-development affecting character or appearance of a nearby conservation area; ALB-development affecting setting of a nearby listed building(s); CNA-development within a conservation area; DDP-departure from the development plan; LBA-works to or within the site of a listed building; MPA-major planning application; EIA-environmental impact assessment (these applications are accompanied by an environmental statement a copy of which may be obtained from the Council – there will be a charge for the copy). 76 BERMONDSEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 3UD (Ref. 17/AP/2057 ) Change of use of building from live/work unit, to separate commercial unit on ground floor (Use Class D2 Pilates Studio), and 3-storey residential maisonette above (Use Class C3 Dwelling House). New entrance door and minor alterations to front elevation. (within Bermondsey Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Martin McKay 0207 525 1818) 76 BERMONDSEY STREET, LONDON, SE1 3UD (Ref. 17/AP/2056 ) Change of use of building from live/work unit, to separate commercial unit on ground floor (Use Class D2 Pilates Studio) and 3-storey residential maisonette above (Use Class C3 Dwelling House). New entrance door and minor alterations to front elevation. (within Bermondsey Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Martin McKay 0207 525 1818) 163 CAMBERWELL GROVE, LONDON, SE5 8JS (Ref. 17/AP/1927 ) Demolition of existing white UPVC glazed conservatory to the rear and erection of new single storey rear extension, part demolition of existing side extension and replacement with new extension to the same dimensions including new roof with skylights and new garden elevation wall. Internal alterations at lower ground floor level. (within Camberwell Grove C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Martin McKay 0207 525 1818) 108-110 CAMBERWELL ROAD, LONDON, SE5 0EE (Ref. 17/AP/2142 ) Change of use from A1 (shops) and A2 (financial and professional services) to D1 (non-residential institution). Reason(s) for publicity: (Contact: Lasma Putrina 0207 525 7708) 1 CATHEDRAL STREET, LONDON, SE1 9DE (Ref. 17/AP/2101 ) Change of use of the ground and first floors from office (use class B1) to restaurant (use class A3); erection of a two storey roof extension (to create a third and fourth floor) for restaurant (use class A3) use; addition of external plant enclosure at roof level. (within Borough High Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Alex Cameron 020 7525 5416) 3 CHOUMERT GROVE, LONDON, SE15 4RB (Ref. 17/AP/2185 ) (Householder Application) Construction of a roof extension with two rooflights to the front roof slope (within Holly Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458) CHUMLEIGH GARDENS, CHUMLEIGH STREET, LONDON, SE5 0BE (Ref. 17/AP/2181 ) Part demolition of the front elevation to widen the entrance with a new window. Removal of internal walls. (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Catherine Jeater 0207 525 5375) CHUMLEIGH GARDENS, CHUMLEIGH STREET, LONDON, SE5 0BE (Ref. 17/AP/2182 ) Part demolition of the front elevation to widen the entrance with a new window.Removal of internal walls. (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Catherine Jeater 0207 525 5375) CHUMLEIGH GARDENS, CHUMLEIGH STREET, LONDON, SE5 0BE (Ref. 17/AP/2183 ) Display of cafe branding on new projecting Victorian awnings (acrylic canvas) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: LBA (Contact: Patrick Cronin - 020 7525 5535 020 7525 5535) FLAT 1, 1 CRESCENT WOOD ROAD, LONDON, SE26 6RT (Ref. 17/AP/2234 ) Replace the roof of the existing conservatory with
a new aluminium profile similar to the existing in appearance, replacement of UPVC door with timber framed door; rebuild side wall in solid brick work next retaining wall rather than partially glazed and refurbishment of the existing timber windows on the conservatory. (within Dulwich Wood C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458) 54B DENMAN ROAD, LONDON, SE15 5NR (Ref. 17/AP/1754 ) Conversion of a five bedroom flat into a one bedroom, two person flat and a two bedroom, three person flat. This includes the erection of a rear dormer loft extension. (within Holly Grove C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Rosie Nolan 0207 525 1335) MOST HOLY TRINITY RC CHURCH, DOCKHEAD, LONDON, SE1 2BS (Ref. 17/AP/2106 ) Construction of a new single storey annexe connected to the church building and the adjacent convent, to provide ancillary facilities for the use of the church and the wider community. (within St Saviours Dock C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Tracy Chapman 020 7525 1948) 68 FRANKFURT ROAD, LONDON, SE24 9NY (Ref. 17/AP/2132 ) (Householder Application) Erection of a 2 storey rear extension Reason(s) for publicity: DDP, MPA (Contact: Lisa Jordan 0207 525 5426) GREEN DRAGON COURT, LONDON SE1 9AL (Ref. 17/AP/2196 ) Advertisement consent for x2 painted murals with Borough Market lettering for a further period of 3 years located on the viaduct walls, at the Green Dragon Court entry point to Borough Market. (within Borough High Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Rosie Nolan 0207 525 1335) 18-22 GROVE VALE, LONDON, SE22 8EF (Ref. 17/AP/2178 ) Variation of Condition 1 of planning permission 16AP2978 dated 24/11/2016 for Minor material amendment to planning permission 12/AP/3023 (which was an amendment to 11/AP/0024) for: Variation of Condition 27 (approved drawing numbers) to allow for the following amendments; Increase and amend footprint of basement; Reconfigure residential entrance; Amend footprint of building on west and south boundaries in accordance with survey; Adjustment to building line on north boundary to comply with site boundary; Retail unit reduced to 274 sq. metres; Re-configured emergency escape from retail core; Reconfiguration of residential units due to changes to building lines; Reconfiguration of access decks; Retention of strip of land to west boundary as landscaped space instead of escape path. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Terence McLellan 020 7525 5365) 15 HALF MOON LANE, LONDON, SE24 9JU (Ref. 17/AP/2174 ) Removing existing aluminium fascia sign and restoring the original timber fascia behind, repainting the graphics and a new concealed LED lighting to back of the lettering (within Stradella Road C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Christopher Kirby 0207 525 0952) 51 LAFONE STREET, LONDON, SE1 2LX (Ref. 17/AP/2149 ) Installation of five condenser units and 3 apertures with acoustic louvers. (within Tower Bridge C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Craig Newton 020 7525 4004) 74-84 LONG LANE, LONDON SE1 4AU (Ref. 17/AP/2122 ) Demolition of the existing building and the erection of a mixed-use 15 storey building
comprising up to 172 co-living rooms (sui generis) with shared amenity space and ancillary residential facilities, co-working office space (Class B1) with ancillary facilities, together with basement, access, servicing, cycle storage, plant and public realm. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Robin Sedgwick 020 7525 3920) 346A LORDSHIP LANE, LONDON, SE22 8LZ (Ref. 17/AP/1600 ) Construction of rear a dormer extension with roof terrace over back addition. (within Dulwich Village C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Lisa Jordan 0207 525 5426) 97 LORRIMORE ROAD, LONDON, SE17 3LZ (Ref. 17/AP/2270 ) Enclosure of existing side passage; Insertion of rooflights to the front and rear elevations to allow more natural light to the new second floor. (within Sutherland Square C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Anthony Roberts 020 7525 5458) 2A MORE LONDON RIVERSIDE, LONDON, SE1 2DB (Ref. 17/AP/1842 ) Temporary erection and installation of 4no Containers and seating areas to the More London side of the estate by the Scoop, a stage and TV to be erected within the Scoop itself and for a bar to be erected within a pagoda and seating across the boardwalk on the London Bridge side of the estate outside of the Cottons Centre and the covering of the petanque pitch
within Hay's Galleria for the Summer Festival Event 20th May 2017 to 9th September 2017. This includes load in and break down, the actual event runs from 1st June 2017 to 31st August 2017. There will be a range of Hot and Cold beverages/food and Arts & Crafts including screenings and performances. (within Tooley Street C.A.) (Grade II listed building) This proposal affects the character or setting of the nearby Tooley Street. Reason(s) for publicity: ACA, CNA, LBA (Contact: Kiran Chauhan 020 7525 5513) 634-636 OLD KENT ROAD, LONDON, SE15 1JB (Ref. 17/AP/1646 ) Demolition of the existing buildings to facilitate the redevelopment of the site to create 42x residential units and 272 sq m (GIA) of flexible commercial floorspace (Class A1/A2/A3/B1) in a new building of between three and six storeys in height, together with disabled car parking, cycle parking, landscaping, plant, and associated works. Reason(s) for publicity: MPA (Contact: Michael Glasgow 020 7525 1249) 237-247 RYE LANE, LONDON, SE15 4TP (Ref. 17/AP/2108 ) Variation of Condition 6 of planning permission 16-AP-0509 for 'Change of use in respect of the ground floor of approved scheme LBS REF Continued on next page....
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TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (as amended)
13/AP/2311 to allow a range of flexible commercial floor space to include A1 retail / B1 office D1 & D2 use class ' to extend the hours of operation from 07:00 - 19:00 on Monday to Saturday and 09:00 - 18.00 on other days to 07:00 - 22:00 on Monday to Saturday and 09:00 21:00 on other days. (within Rye Lane C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Sonia Watson 020 7525 5434) SANTANDER, 9 SOUTHWARK STREET, LONDON, SE1 1RQ (Ref. 17/AP/1818 ) Installation of a new shopfront; relocation of the ATMs; form new ramp with anti-slippery rating entrance tiles; new cladding to side wall to match existing fasade cladding. (within Borough High Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Terence McLellan 020 7525 5365)
PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 (as amended)
TANNER STREET PARK, TANNER STREET, LONDON SE1 (Ref. 17/AP/2131 ) Minor material amendment to planning permission 15-AP-2595 'Change of use from a shelter ancillary to a communal park to a new cafe/restaurant (class A3) including restoration of the shelter together with ground floor extensions' to: (i) (ii)
Provide alternative refuse storage; Retain floorplan alterations which converts the consented refuse storage space into an extended kitchen space; (iii) Alterations to west elevation associated to the changes to the kitchen layout. (within Bermondsey Street C.A.) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA (Contact: Philip Ridley 0207 525 7540)
JOHN SMITH HOUSE, 144-152 WALWORTH ROAD, LONDON, SE17 1JL (Ref. 17/AP/2016 ) Demolition of non-structural external brick walls and windows to be replaced with three sets of folding glazed doors overlooking the lower ground floor side courtyard. Additional use of the courtyard as public & private Amenity space for the vending of food and beverages from the existing internal Hostel servery. Additional openings in the undercroft passageway nonstructural wall to facilitate relocated means of escape. (within Walworth Road C.A.) (Grade II listed building) Reason(s) for publicity: CNA, LBA (Contact: Catherine Jeater 0207 525 5375) CAMBERWELL SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, WILSON ROAD (Ref. 17/AP/1521 ) Temporary 5 year retention of the front single
Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003
Please take notice that we Bedales Enterprises Ltd Have made application to the local licensing authority for a new Premises Licence in respect of Bob’s Lobster, Unit SU59, 71 St Thomas Street, London, SE1 3QX The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, on from the premises are The supply of alcohol: The provision of late night refreshment: Opening hours:
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Start time
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Sun - Weds Thurs - Sat
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23:30 01:00
Sun - Weds Thurs - Sat Sun - Weds Thurs - Sat
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23:30 01:00 00:00 01:30
A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by Southwark Licensing Team, Regulatory Services, 3rd Floor Hub 1, PO Box 64529, London, SE1P 5LX - E-mail: licensing@southwark.gov.uk
A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also on our web site at www.southwark.gov.uk/businesscentre/licensing/currentapplication
It is open to any person to make representations about the likely effect of the grant of the premises licence on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below. Note: It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale. Date of application: 12th June 2017 LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (ROTHERHITHE STREET, ODESSA STREET) 1. 2.
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TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable construction works to be carried out by Hollybrook Ltd, it intends to make an order, the effect of which would be to prohibit waiting and loading in parts of the above named roads. Whilst works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to stop, wait, load or unload in:- Rotherhithe Street, its southern and western kerb, between Salter Road and opposite the common boundary of Nos. 327 and 325. - Rotherhithe Street, its western and northern kerb, from opposite the common boundary of Nos. 349 and 351 to opposite the common boundary of Nos. 353 and 355. - Odessa Street, both sides, between the access road to Redriff Estate and the northern boundary wall of the LB Southwark Odessa Street Youth Club building. An alternative route would not be applicable.
Exemptions would be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
The restrictions would not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The restrictions would be operational from 22nd June 2017 until 21st December 2018.
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 15th June 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX 3660/ 16/AP/2681
storey building and a change of use from Class D1 (Education) to a mixed Class D1 (Education)/Class B1 (affordable studio office accommodation) Reason(s) for publicity: (Contact: Rosie Nolan 0207 525 1335)
Dated 15 June 2017 - comments to be received within 21 days of this date SIMON BEVAN - Director of Planning
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 SECTION 14(1) (LYNTON ROAD) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark hereby gives notice that to enable development works to be carried out by Adderstone Developments (103) Ltd, it intends to make an order, the effect of which would be to prohibit vehicular and pedestrian traffic in parts of the above named road.
Whilst works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall cause any vehicle to enter, proceed, stop, wait, load or unload in Lynton Road, between its junction with St James’s Road and the eastern boundary of Number 199 Lynton Road. Whilst works are in progress, and whilst the authorised traffic signs are displayed, no person shall enter or proceed into the southern footway, between its junction with St James’s Road and a point opposite the eastern boundary of Number 199 Lynton Road. An alternative route for traffic would be via St James’s Road, Southwark Park Road, Dunton Road and Lynton Road. Exemptions would be provided in the Order to permit reasonable access to premises, so far as it is practical without interference with the execution of the said works.
The restrictions would not apply to any vehicle being used in connection with the said works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform. The restrictions would be operational from 26th June 2017 for a maximum period of 18 months, with restrictions planned to be applicable on the following dates only:- Monday 26th June, 2017 - Wednesday 5th July, 2017 - Wednesday 12th July, 2017 - Wednesday 19th July, 2017
- Thursday 29th June, 2017 - Friday 7th July, 2017 - Friday 14th July, 2017 - Friday 21st July, 2017
Further information may be obtained by contacting Road Network & Parking Management on 0207 525 2014.
Dated this 15th June 2017 Nicky Costin Road Network & Parking Business Manager
Southwark Council, Regulatory Services, Road Network Management, PO Box 64529 London SE1 5LX DB: 3739
Notice of Application for a Premises Licence made under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003
Please take notice that I / we Chantel Yeung Have made application to the local licensing authority for a new Premises Licence in respect of 1A Warwick Court, Choumert Road, SE15 4SE The relevant licensable activities and proposed times to be carried on, on from the premises are The supply of alcohol: Opening hours:
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Finish time
Mon - Sun
09.00
23.30
Mon - Sun
10:00
23:00
A register of all applications made within the Southwark area is maintained by Southwark Licensing Team, Regulatory Services, 3rd Floor Hub 1, PO Box 64529, London, SE1P 5LX - E-mail: licensing@southwark.gov.uk A record of this application may be inspected by visiting the office during normal office hours by appointment on 020 7525 2000; details are also on our web site at www.southwark.gov.uk/businesscentre/licensing/currentapplication It is open to any person to make representations about the likely effect of the grant of the premises licence on the promotion of the licensing objectives. Representations must be made in writing to the Licensing Service at the office address given above and be received by the Service within a period of 28 days starting the day after the date shown below. Note: It is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make a false statement in connection with an application. A person guilty of such offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale. Date of application: 11th June 2017
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PUBLIC NOTICES 39
Public notice
Changes to housing estate parking
The London Borough of Southwark (Housing estate roads and car parks) (No. 8) Order 2017 1. 2.
Southwark Council hereby GIVES NOTICE that it proposes to make the above order under the powers of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 . The effect of the order would be, in:-
(a) ELIZABETH ESTATE, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in No’s 2-61 PHELP STREET, No’s 43-61 WESTMORELAND ROAD, LADY MARGARET HOUSE, ST. MARKS HOUSE, ST. MATTHEWS HOUSE AND ST. STEPHENS HOUSE. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in the estate road and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of ‘E-EZ’ residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls; (b) GOMM ROAD ESTATE, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in No’s 21-95 GOMM ROAD. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in the estate road and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of ‘E-GR’ residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls;
(c) HAWKSTONE ESTATE EAST, to extend a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in HARBORD HOUSE AND WESTFIELD HOUSE. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in these estate roads and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-HW' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls; (d) MONTEAGLE WAY, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in MONTEAGLE WAY. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in the estate road and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-MW' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls; (e) RENNNIE ESTATE, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in BARLOW HOUSE, BARRY HOUSE, BEAMISH HOUSE, DODD HOUSE, DONKIN HOUSE, FITZMAURICE HOUSE, LANDMANN HOUSE AND TREVITHICK HOUSE . Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in the estate road and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-RE' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls;
(f) ROCKINGHAM ESTATE 1, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in BRAMWELL HOUSE, CARTWRIGHT HOUSE , CROMPTON HOUSE, VARLEY HOUSE, WHEATSTONE HOUSE, WHITWORTH HOUSE AND WICKSTEED HOUSE . Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in these estate roads and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-RH' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls;
(g) ROCKINGHAM ESTATE 2, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in ELLINGTON HOUSE, LONGRIDGE HOUSE AND MARTIN HOUSE. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in these estate roads and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-RH' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls; (h) ROCKINGHAM ESTATE 3, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in AIRD HOUSE, ARROL HOUSE, BATH TERRACE, BANKS HOUSE, BINNIE HOUSE, BRUNLEES HOUSE AND NEWALL HOUSE. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in these estate roads and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-RH' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls;
(I) ROCKINGHAM ESTATE 4, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in RANKINE HOUSE, RENNIE HOUSE, RUMFORD HOUSE, STEPHENSON HOUSE AND TELFORD HOUSE. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in these estate roads and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-RH' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls; (j) ROUEL ROAD ESTATE, to extend a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in PETER HILLS HOUSE AND CHARLES MACKENZIE HOUSE. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in these estate roads and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-RR' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls; (k) SOUTHAMPTON WAY ESTATE, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in DALWOOD STREET, DIBDEN HOUSE, HAVIL STREET ESTATE NORTH, MARCHWOOD CLOSE, MELBURY DRIVE, REDBRIDGE GARDENS SEDGMOOR PLACE AND STANSWOOD GARDENS. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in these estate roads and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-SE' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls;
(l) TAY COURT, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in No’s 46-66 TAY COURT, DECIMA STREET. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in these estate roads and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-TC' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls; (m) UNITY COURT, to propose a new permit parking zone into the estate roads and car parks fronting or adjacent to properties in No’s 1-31 UNITY COURT, No’s 2-10 MAWBEY PLACE AND No’s 2-8 FORTUNE PLACE. Existing uncontrolled parking places and parking bays in these estate roads and car parks would be designated as permit holders' parking for use of 'E-UC' residents, business, visitors or carers permit holders only, existing disabled persons parking places and parking bays would continue to operate as before, and the remaining kerbside or car park areas not designated as parking would be made subject to 'no waiting at any time' controls;
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For more information contact Clarence Parkes, the council's Estate parking manager by telephone on 020 7525 2022 or e-mail clarence.parkes@southwark.gov.uk .
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Anyone wishing to object to or make any other representations regarding the proposal, may use the form labelled 'Parking - Road traffic and highway schemes - responding to statutory consultation notices' at https://forms.southwark.gov.uk/ShowForm.asp?fm_fid=1081 or send a statement in writing to: the Traffic orders officer, Highways, Southwark council, Environment and Social regeneration, P.O. Box 64529, London SE1P 5LX or by e-mail to traffic.orders@southwark.gov.uk quoting reference H/ESR/TMO1718-001S by 7 July 2017. Please note that if you wish to object to this proposal you must state the grounds on which your objection is made.
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Copies of this notice, the proposed orders, a statement of the council's reasons for making this chance and plans may be obtained from or viewed at Highways, Environment and Social regeneration, 3rd floor hub 2, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Please telephone 020 7525 2022 for details.
When making an objection or representation, please be aware that this may be communicated to other people who may be affected. Information provided in response to this consultation, including in some circumstances personal information, may also be subject to publication or disclosure under the requirements of current access to information legislation.
Dated 15th June 2017
Nicky Costin Parking and network management business unit manager Regulatory services
D e a d l i n e f o r p u b l i c n o t i c e s i s Tu e s d a y a t 5 p m
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40 NON-LEAGUE/RUGBY/BOXING/ATHLETICS
By John Kelly
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CANADA WATER sprinter Yasmin Miller has her eye on the U23 World Championships after ending a two-year medal drought.
Twenty-two-year-old London South Bank University student Miller recently competed at the British University & College Students Nationals, winning gold in the 100m hurdles with a time of 13.6 seconds. Miller beat the BUCS Nationals 60m hurdles record with a time of 7.22 seconds in the semi-final, before missing out on gold in the final by 0.01 seconds. Law student Miller knows she must lower her 100m record to achieve her dream of competing at the Worlds. “I was really happy to win gold at BUCS, as I hadn’t won anything in two years,” she said. “My training was good but my indoors hurdling in winter wasn’t my
best season. Now I’m the fittest I’ve ever been. “Breaking thirteen seconds is a big goal, but the speed is so fast and I’m still learning how to control the movement when I get to that speed. “I’ve started doing a lot of fast-leg training to fix that as I want to try and go to the European Athletics U23 Championships. “My PB is 13.13 seconds but I’ll need to shave that to 12.98 if I want to qualify for Worlds in July.” Her busy schedule has taken her to competitions in Belgium, France and Poland recently. Miller also has to think about her final exams, and she has little time between the track and the study desk. She said: “Balancing study and training, I know I have to use my time wisely. Sometimes I’m following up my training by going straight into exam revision.” And there will be little rest after her summer exploits, with a return to LSBU and her Commercial Law course in September.
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Colombo gets award
A SOUTHWARK sports centre has been recognised for its work encouraging people to take part in physical exercise.
Hamlet stalwart steps down
DULWICH HAMLET are looking for a new secretary, after club legend Martin Eede stepped down following more than two decades in various roles.
Eede was still active at boardroom level, but after retiring to Wiltshire in recent years the commute was taking its toll. Hamlet are now searching for a replacement for a man who filed positions including manager, chairman, secretary and groundsman. “I've been involved with football all of my adult life, as a player, manager, administrator and more,” Eede told the club’s official website. “But in truth I'm not getting any younger and the long train journeys up from the West Country are becoming a little too much for me. “I've loved being involved at Dulwich Hamlet, and have always given one hundred per cent no matter what role I've been in. But the workload is also becoming harder in the modern
Yasmin Miller has set her sights on a sub 13-second 100m hurdles
electronic age, so I feel it's time to stand down as club secretary.” However Eede, who joined Hamlet from Molesey in the early 90s when Steve Dye Snr was the owner, will still be a familiar face around the progressive Dulwich club. Chairman Liam Hickey explained: “It was our monthly committee meeting [last] Thursday, which also doubles up as our Annual General Meeting. This is where Martin officially stood down. “I was honoured, alongside the rest of my committee who backed it unanimously, to propose that Martin become the honorary Dulwich Hamlet Football Club vice-president – the very least we could do for a man who has selflessly devoted so much service to our club. “Martin is welcome in the boardroom at any time, he doesn't even have to ask or knock at the door. Having just completed my first season as [chairman] I shall always be indebted to him for the
valuable advice and experience he has offered me, in supporting me in this role.” Eede added: “To be honest, I was just looking to go away quietly, perhaps coming back to a game once a month or so, when I can afford to now that I'm fully retired and an old age pensioner. “Locally, down my way, I will take in a few matches at the likes of Frome Town, Weston Super Mare and so on.” Dulwich are advertising to fill the position of secretary, which is an honorary role, on their website. Interested candidates should email liamhickey1893@gmail.com for more information or to apply before June 25. Meanwhile, Hamlet boss Gavin Rose announced his retained list this week, with fourteen of last season’s Isthmian League Premier Division squad staying on. They will be joined by new recruits Anthony Acheampong and Ricky Hayles from Maidstone and Welling, respectively.
across the country. In May, more than 150 Warrior Camps took place at rugby clubs around England with the hope of attracting more than 1,000 new players to the sport – with sports kit and trainers the only equipment needed. Old Alleynians’ girls and ladies team manager McIntosh said the positive response to the camp was a welcome boost as the club looks to get a senior side off the ground. “It was really good,” she said. “We had about 20 down, ten of which were brand new, the other half were either our under18s or people we have had contact with
before. “About ten further people who were interested but who couldn’t make it on the day. So we’re really pleased with the interest on the back of it, and hopefully we’ll get the ladies section up and running. “The feedback was really positive – everybody seemed to have a good time and they all stayed afterwards for the barbecue and beers! “We’ll have to see how things go, but everybody seemed really excited to come back.” With women’s rugby hot on the agenda as the countdown begins to the Women’s
Colombo Centre in Hatfields won MyLocalPitch’s Outstanding London Sports Venue Award for May. The venue includes a gym, exercise studios, badminton courts, hard-court multi-use games area and seven-a-side 3G football pitches. The Jubilee Hall Trust help run the grassroots venue with the aim of making a difference to the health and well-being of London communities. Club manager at Colombo Centre, Lenny Stephens, said: “It’s an honour to receive the award and we would like to thank everyone that took the time to pass their positive feedback of the centre on to MyLocalPitch. “We hope to encourage more people to partake in physical activity – especially those in the local community – in the form of football, netball, tennis, gym, or any of the many sports and activities we facilitate here. “I would like to thank MyLocalPitch for making this more accessible to more people.”
Kongo on Eubank bill
BERMONDSEY’S CHRIS Kongo is set to feature on the undercard of Chris Eubank Jr’s IBO super-middleweight title defence at Wembley Arena on July 15.
Mar tin Eede
Kongo took his record to 4-0 with a 41-second knockout of Michal Vosyka in May. Welterweight Kongo will fight for the fifth time in his professional career on the Eubank Jr-Arthur Abraham bill, with the bouts shown live on ITV Box Office.
Bright future for women’s rugby in Dulwich By Jimmy Booker
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WITH A solid foundation of youngsters at the club, the future of women’s rugby at Old Alleynians looks rosy according to team manager Helen McIntosh.
The London club hosted a Warrior Camp at its Dulwich Common base on May 27 as part of the England Rugby initiative Meet Your Inner Warrior. The campaign is aimed at women aged 18-35 and tries to encourage greater female participation in contact rugby
Rugby World Cup later this summer, McIntosh is banking on increased interest on the women’s game to help boost Old Alleynians’ numbers as they look to launch their senior side. They already boast more than 100 juniors up to and including under-18 level. “Our touch sessions start soon and hopefully that will give us a flavour of who wants to keep on coming back for the full contact later in the year,” said McIntosh. “By September, we’re going to try and get a full contact squad, have a year of development, and hopefully if we can,
next year we’ll be looking at entering a league. “Three years ago I was targeted with getting the girls section up and running, which I’ve now done. “We’ve got a few who will be under18s next year, and the idea is to give those girls a pathway all the way through to senior rugby.” For details on how to Meet Your Inner Warrior, and register your interest in an upcoming Warrior Camp, go to www.englandrugby.com/innerwarrior or to www.findrugby.com to find a rugby club near you.
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n Wednesday 17th of May as a celebration of Kicks, Millwall teamed up with UK rapper and former Millwall Premier League Kicks coach Don Strapzy to release a music video on YouTube which encapsulates the Millwall Kicks programme and life in South London as a whole.
The video features Millwall Kicks participants and coaches in action at their respective sessions with rapper Don Strapzy providing lyrical content to compliment the video. Work for the video began in late November, and saw film creator Charlie Compitus (@ckcmusic) travel around to Millwall Premier League Kicks venues including The Lions Centre, Bells Gardens and the Silwood Estate to capture the magic going on in some of the local estates and centres in Southwark and Lewisham. Once filming was complete Charlie worked hard on editing the video whilst Don Strapzy helped to complete the video by adding football-related lyrics. Millwall’s Kicks Community Development Officer Gary Otim commented: “The Millwall Kicks programme is a programme that has been hugely successful over the years and continues to grow and change over time. For years we have had the idea of documenting and putting out video content on YouTube of the work that the programme does to go with the multi-media world that we now live in. A lot of our work is done in local ball courts, estates, youth clubs and leisure centres which I feel encapsulates South London youth culture and we are proud of that culture. We thought it would be great to get Andrew (Don Strapzy) involved somehow seeing as he’s a music artist, has worked on the Kicks programme, lives locally and hence understands the young people and the work we’re trying to do in the community. Hopefully the video resonates with young people and partners alike and gives people a rough idea of the work that we do within the community.” Kicks participant Mohammed Koroma, who attends three different Kicks sessions a week and makes a brief appearance in the video: “We really liked the idea of there being a video that represents Millwall Kicks and what the sessions are about. The sessions are one of the highlights in my week as we get to play free football in safe environment where the coaches encourage us to improve as players and as people.” Premier League Kicks is one of the Premier League's flagship community programmes and is joint funded by Sport England. The programme was formerly branded Kickz and began as a pilot project
Millwall Premier League Kicks official video launch
in London between the Premier League and the Metropolitan Police in 2006, with the aim of using football to bring communities together and engage with young people. Millwall began running their Kicks programme in January 2007, being one of the first community clubs to run the piloted programme. Since then the programme has continued to grow and expand where it started off with four sessions a week spilt between two venues. The programme now has 19 different sessions across the boroughs of Southwark and Lewisham. Stats between September 2016 and January 2017 show Millwall Premier League Kicks to be one of the leading national Premier League Kicks programmes for engagement of 8-19 year olds and of 14+ participants, a key performance indicator for Sport England. This is thanks to support from the Premier League, local youth services and housing associations. The life changing community development programme, which takes place for 48 weeks of the year throughout Southwark and Lewisham for young people aged from 8 to 19, is delivered in a variety of different settings such as local ball courts, estates, youth clubs and leisure centres. Football is the attraction with the Millwall’s Premier League Kicks programme increasing the number of local young people taking part in weekly structured football sessions delivered by FA qualified coaches from Millwall Community Trust
(MCT). Through taking part in the programme, (MCT) have created pathways for local young people to access grassroots football and has had many success stories where talented young players have progressed into Millwall Academy and many other professional football clubs over recent times which highlights the vast amounts of talent in South London. MCT and the Kicks programme are also committed to support local teenagers into education and employment through initially volunteering at their local Kicks session where the Millwall Premier League Kicks programme currently boasts 16 ex-Kicks participants who are now paid employees at (MCT), all delivering on the programme. The programme also refer young people to the ever growing Millwall Community Trust Football & Education 16-18 Academy where players will study BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma in Sport, BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Sport, City & Guilds Level 2 Increasing Participation in Sport or the City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Sport together with core skills in Maths and English. Players will also be granted the opportunity to gain their FA Level One in Coaching Football Qualification. Millwall Community Trust will continue to provide a wide range of weekly football sessions across the boroughs of Southwark and Lewisham under the Premier League Kicks programme. For more information about Millwall’s Premier League Kicks
programme, please call 020 7740 0503 or follow us on Twitter @Millwall_Kicks or visit the Millwall Community Trust website. Video Link: Don Strapzy - We
Don't Care {Millwall Premier League Kicks} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =Azbylbo4JMI&t=40s
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ELLIOTT SHUNNED NORTHERN LIGHTS
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Millwall add two more friendlies By John Kelly
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MILLWALL HAVE added trips to Dartford and Barnet to their preseason friendly fixture schedule.
The Lions’s short trip to the Darts comes before they travel to their weeklong training camp in Portugal where they will play two behind-closed-doors fixtures. They will face Barnet at The Hive Stadium on July 22 before going to Stevenage three days later ahead of their preparations for the 2017-18 Championship season.
THE PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS: Saturday July 8 - Dartford (1pm) Saturday July 22 - Barnet (3pm) Tuesday July 25 - Stevenage (7.45pm)
Millwall will release ticket details in due course, as well as confirming the rest of their friendly fixture schedule.
Lions avoid Champ giants
MILLWALL WILL avoid some of the bigger sides in the first round of the League Cup.
The draw will take place on Friday, with Millwall one of the seeded teams, along with the likes of Championship rivals Aston Villa, Fulham and Brentford.
Carabao Cup first round Southern section seeded teams: Aston Villa Birmingham City Brentford Bristol City Bristol Rovers Cardiff City Charlton Athletic Fulham Ipswich Town MILLWALL Milton Keynes Dons Norwich City Oxford United Peterborough United Queens Park Rangers Reading Southend United Wolverhampton Wanderers Southern section unseeded teams: AFC Wimbledon Barnet Cambridge United Cheltenham Town Colchester United Crawley Town Exeter City Forest Green Rovers Gillingham Luton Town Newport County Northampton Town Plymouth Argyle Portsmouth Stevenage Swindon Town Wycombe Wanderers Yeovil Town
Meanwhile, the fixtures for the 2017-18 Championship season will be released on Wednesday, June 21 at 9am.
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Big striker had other options but Neil Harris’ powers of persuasion did the trick
By Jay Taylor
news@southwarknews.co.uk
NEW SIGNING Tom Elliott revealed he had options to continue his career in the north of England, before Neil Harris convinced him to join Millwall.
The 26-year-old has moved across London, swapping the south west with AFC Wimbledon for the south east, signing a two-year-deal with the Lions after his medical last week. And, like Millwall’s other new recruit James Meredith, Leeds-born Elliott said it was Harris’ meticulous attention to detail that swayed him to join last season’s League One playoff final winners. “I met up with Neil Harris the manager, and, to be fair, I was blown away by his presentation,” Elliott explained. “I’m a northern boy so I've only heard little bits about Millwall. He explained a bit more about the club, and what goes on behind the scenes. I saw the bigger picture. “I did have the northern options but
since I've come to London, I've loved it. I'm new to this part of London, so I'm looking forward to seeing a different part of it.” Elliott told Dons boss Neal Ardley he wanted to leave when his contract ran out after the end of last season. After that it was down to the power of Harris’ persuasion. “His passion and the recruitment team’s passion gave me a big decision to make,” Elliott said. “I was honest with him and said that I had to go and meet a few more people, but he was in the back of my mind, Neil Harris and Millwall. “Just seeing his passion and meeting him, I wanted to be a part of it and [knew I] would be a better player for coming here. “The way he came across to me, the stats he pulled out and what they wanted to do going forward and how I would fit into their programme, it blew my mind a little. “I left the meeting excited to work with him. I’m excited to start the season with him and start a new chapter.” Ellliott hasn’t played in the
Championship since 2006-07, when he made three appearances for Leeds United following his debut as a sixteen-year-old. Elliott revealed Millwall were interested in him before he joined the Dons from Cambridge United in 2015, and Harris also considered making a move for the 6ft 4ins centre-forward in January. Elliott showed his professionalism by continuing to give his utmost for Wimbledon despite wanting a move away. And he says he will work hard to earn a place in the side after finally getting another shot at playing Championship football. “I just wanted to wait until the end of the season and to see what the best option was for me to move forward and then take it from there,” Elliott explained. “Before I signed for Wimbledon I spoke to Neil briefly then, I knew I was on the radar, and I knew through speaking to friends and my agent that Millwall were interested this time around. “As a Wimbledon player I just kept
playing my football and kept my head down and worked hard. “As soon as the season finished I knew they wanted to meet me, so I was excited to meet Neil. “Being a striker himself and Millwall being a big club I wanted to see what he had to say and take it from there. “I’ve been to new clubs and had to work my way up and respect the team. I’m going to get my head down and do exactly the same here.” Elliott added he also spoke to former Millwall defender and his former team-mate at AFC Wimbledon, Paul Robinson, about the move and what to expect from the Den crowd. Elliott said: “Speaking to the manager, and previous players like Paul Robinson, I know what the fans will want, they demand the players give 110 per cent. “The ones that have seen me and see how I've played, that’s my game – I give everything I have on the pitch, I'm willing to do that. “I will fight defenders, I’ll chase down, that’s just the basics for me.”
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CRAZY GANG SUITS JAMES Southwark News, Thursday June 15, 2017
By Jay Taylor
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JAMES MEREDITH has admitted he always admired Millwall from afar prior to sealing a switch to SE16.
The defender successfully passed a medical last week before signing a two-year-deal just weeks after suffering play-off final heartbreak with Bradford against the Lions in the League One play-off final. And the 29-year-old is looking ahead to experiencing the cut and thrust of the Championship for the first time, and being on the right end of the vociferous Den atmosphere. “I’ve always liked Millwall as a club,” Meredith told the News. “It’s nice to finally put pen to paper.” “I never minded the insults or when they make that monk noise - I loved it. “You would hear people and other fans from other teams thinking, ‘oh, no Millwall’ or ‘I hate Millwall’ or whatever because of their bad reputation. “Personally, I’ve always liked the craziness, I like the reputation they have on the pitch, the whole ethos of the club, the togetherness.” Meredith has earned the right to ply his trade in the Championship having made his way to The Den via stints at Irish club Sligo Rovers, Shrewsbury Town and York City. He was close to a return to his native Australia after his career with the Shrews stalled, and he is determined to show Lions supporters the same work ethic that got his career back on track at York and then Bradford. “I was out of a club,” Meredith remembered. “I couldn't find anywhere for six months. I was left to decide to quit and go back to Australia or sign a six-month deal in the National League North [with AFC Telford United]. “I decided to do it and give it everything and then I built my way from that division to the National
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League. “I made it through League Two and League One with promotions and now I'm sitting here happy as I am and I’m going to go again. I’m not going to sit back and relax - I want to go again. “It’s hard when you’re 20 or 21 years old and you're on the other side of the world with no money. “I was training in a park every day going to a gym with my fingers crossed that someone would give me a chance. I guess it’s a part of the
process that’s led me to where I am.” “Expect to see me work hard. I'm assertive, attacking, I go hard and give my everything. That’s what the fans can expect.” Meredith now has another career challenge ahead of him to win a place in the Millwall side. Club captain Tony Craig played more times than any other Lions player last season, and excelled after Neil Harris moved him to left-back. Craig will likely start the season as first-choice left-back, with Meredith
Meredith’s Bradford in the League One play-off final in May, and the bookies are tipping them to struggle in a league containing the likes of Sunderland, who this week agreed to sell Jordan Pickford to Everton for £30million. The Black Cats will reinvest most if not all of that cash in their squad. The fact that Aston Villa have held talks with former Chelsea captain John Terry also indicates the kind of pulling power Millwall are up against. But Meredith is not intimated ahead
of the new campaign, and believes Millwall’s home form is crucial to survival. “Looking at it on paper, everyone will assume we will go down,” he said. “Personally I don't think that will be the case. We will work hard. “I think we will do better than a lot of people think. We will provide an intimidating atmosphere at home to pick up more points in the season than some would think. “The mentality really helps. Everyone thinks the atmosphere [at
in reserve. But the two-cap Australian international is prepared to work for his first-team spot. “My expectations are to do my best for the club and see what happens,” Meredith said. “I think the team will do well, the gaffer is making good signings. “It’s all new territory for me, I have never played Championship football before but I'm confident in my ability and the team's ability to be able to do well.
“I don't rest on my laurels. For me, there is no guarantee of first-team football. Tony Craig was great last season, he got promoted and he was playing left-back all season. “I will just come in pre-season and work as hard as I can. I have done that every year in my whole career. I battle, I fight for my place and hopefully I’ll come out on top and I will do my best for the club. “If not, I will sit on the bench, bide my time, work hard and get my chance.”
Meredith: We’ll do better than people think
By John Kelly
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JAMES MEREDITH is confident Millwall can surprise a few people in the Championship next season.
The Lions will make their return to the second tier after two seasons in League One – and were immediately installed as one of the favourites to go straight back down. Millwall clinched their place in the Championship with victory over
The Den] will be difficult and it'll be high-tempo, tackles flying about, so it can be intimidating.” How well Millwall perform will also depend on the form of Steve Morison and Lee Gregory, the regular front pairing who contributed a combined 84 goals in the last two seasons. Meredith has experience of how strong a partnership they are. He said: “I know Lee Gregory, and Steve Morison from playing against him and talking to him. Steve and I have played against each other so
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many times. “One thing about Steve is that you have to watch him on the header and make sure you're positioned well. He’s strong and will fight you in the air and he is really good at heading the ball. “He did me in the play-off semifinal last year at Valley Parade from his goal from the corner. “He’s done it for years. I think I was at York and he was at Stevenage and he was doing it then. I think his hair was different, he was bald then!”
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Millwall to learn League Cup fate By John Kelly
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MILLWALL HAVE been seeded for the draw for the first round of the League Cup on Friday.
‘Impressive’ Harris presentation was key to defender’s Millwall switch
By John Kelly
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JAMES MEREDITH revealed an “intricate” presentation to him by Neil Harris convinced him to join Millwall. Meredith signed a two-year deal with the Lions last week after rejecting a new contract from Bradford. Millwall defeated the Bantams in the League One play-off final in May, and Meredith will now have the chance to play in the second tier of English football for the first time in his career.
The club contacted the Australian international’s representatives shortly after the final, with Harris using video clips to show the role he had in mind for Meredith next season and how he will fit into the team. Meredith explained Millwall wasted little time in trying to secure his signature after the Wembley decider. “I got an inkling after the playoff final,” Meredith, 29, said. “Obviously I was disappointed with the result at the time, then my agent started to speak to the
manager and there was interest. “I came down to see [Harris] and to see his plans for the future, and the things he said about the cub. “He persuaded me and I feel I have made a really good decision. I’m really happy with signing. “I sat down with him and he showed me his plans for next season and how he thought I would fit into those plans – I was really impressed. “His approach was very detailed – there were a lot of video clips, it was really intricate. “He showed me exactly what he
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wants me doing next season, exactly how the team will play and how he would want other players playing off me, it was really impressive. I’m really looking forward to getting started.” Meredith is also confident it won’t take him long to find his feet in south London. He said: “I would like to fit in and settle down here, I think all the lads will make me quite welcome from what I hear. “They are a good bunch and everyone is together.”
The Lions are in the southern section of the competition, which has been rebranded the Carabao Cup on a three-year deal worth £18million. The draw will take place in Thailand – where Carabao, an energy drink company, was founded – and will be streamed live from 1pm on the EFL’s new live streaming platform, iFollow, as well as on Facebook and Skysports.com. The draw will be conducted by former France World Cup winner Emmanuel Petit, along with EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey and British ambassador to Thailand Brian Davidson. Millwall defeated Barnet 4-0 in the first round of last season’s competition, before losing 2-1 to Nottingham Forest in the next round. Millwall will face an unseeded team from the southern section, with ties to be played the week beginning August 7.
Leonard wants move
MILLWALL MIDFIELD target Ryan Leonard wants to leave Southend.
The Lions have bid £300,000 for the 25-year-old, who is eager to play Championship football after six years with the Shrimpers. Leonard’s agent said this week: “Ryan has not submitted a transfer request at this stage but he would certainly like to play at a higher level and move on from Southend. “He would welcome the chance to step up to the Championship and the club are being offered good money, so it would seem to make good financial sense too.” Sheffield United are also interested in Leonard. THE RECYCLED PAPER CONTENT OF UK NEWSPAPERS IN 2014 WAS 83.5%